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Umdat al-Ahkam (al-Maqdisi) 131عمدة الأحكام 131
عن عبد الله بن عمر رضي الله عنهما قال: «سأل رجل النبي - صلى الله عليه وسلم - وهو على المنبر - ما ترى في صلاة الليل؟ قال: مثنى، مثنى. فإذا خشي أحدكم الصبح صلى واحدة. فأوترت له ما صلى. وإنه كان يقول: اجعلوا آخر صلاتكم بالليل وترا».
Narrated Nafi`: Ibn `Umar said, "While the Prophet (ﷺ) was on the pulpit, a man asked him how to offer the night prayers. He replied, 'Pray two rak`at at a time and then two and then two and so on, and if you are afraid of the dawn (the approach of the time of the Fajr prayer) pray one rak`a and that will be the witr for all the rak`at which you have offered." Ibn `Umar said, "The last rak`at of the night prayer should be odd, for the Prophet (ﷺ) ordered it to be so.
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Its text is in Sahih al-Bukhari
Chain of narrators
عبد الله بن عمر
Ibn `Umar