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Umdat al-Ahkam (al-Maqdisi) 204عمدة الأحكام 204
عن عبد الله بن عمرو بن العاص رضي الله عنهما قال: قال رسول الله - صلى الله عليه وسلم -: «إن أحب الصيام إلى الله صيام داود. وأحب الصلاة إلى الله صلاة داود. كان ينام نصف الليل، ويقوم ثلثه. وينام سدسه. وكان يصوم يوما ويفطر يوما».
'Abdullah b. 'Amr (Allah be pleased with both of them) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: With Allah the best fasting is that of David and the best prayer is that of David (peace be upon him) for he slept half of the night and stood for prayer for the third of it and (then) slept the sixth part of it and he observed fast one day and broke on the other.
Grading
Its text is in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim
Chain of narrators
عبد الله بن عمرو
Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As