Sunan at-Tirmidhi (Jami-al-Tirmidhi)

that Allah's Messenger (SAW) came their way. He said, "Surely, Allah has helped you with a salah that is better for you than red camels: the witr! Allah has assigned it for you between the salah of isha and the rise of dawn." [Abu Dawud 1418, Ibn e Majah 1168]
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said, "The witr is not fard like your prescribed prayers. But, it is the sunnah of Allah's Messenger (SAW) who said: Surely Allah is witr (one). He loves witr, so offer the witr, "O people of the Quran!." [Ahmed 652, Abu Dawud 1416, Muslim 1674, Ibn e Majah 1169]
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Sufyan Thawri and others report from Abu Ishaq from Aasim ibn Damrah and he from Sayyidina Ali (RA) that witr is not like the fard salah, but is sunnah. The Prophet (SAW) made it a sunnah.
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that Allah's Messenger (saw) commanded him to offer the witr before going to sleep. [Muslim 6085]
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Masruq asked Sayyidah Aishah (RA) about the Prophet's (SAW) witr. She said, "He offered the witr in the night, the first of it, the middle of it and the last of it. So, he ended his witr about the time of his death towards the last of the night (at the time of suhr, before dawn before his death)." [Ahmed 24745, Bukhari 996, Muslim 745, Abu Dawud 1435, Muslim 1677, Ibn e Majah 1186]
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that the Prophet used to offer thirteen rakah witr. When he grew old and weak, he offered seven. [Ahmed 26800, Nisai 1704]
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said, "The Prophet's (SAW) salah of the night comprised of thirteen rakah of which five were witr during which he did not sit down a while, except at the end. Then when the mu'adhdhin called the adhan, he stood up and prayed two light rakat." [Ahmed 24294, Muslim 737, Abu Dawud 1360, Ibn e Majah 1359]
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Allah's Messenger (SAW) used to offer three rakah witr. He recited therein nine surah from the mufassal, reciting in each raka'ah three surah, the last being al-lkhlas. [Ahmed 678]
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that he asked Sayyidina Ibn Umar (RA) if he may lengthen the two rakat of fajr. He said, 'The Prophet prayed in the night in two's and (finally) one rakah of witr. And offered the two rakat (of fajr) with the adhan in his ears." [Bukhari 995, Muslim 749, Ibn e Majah 1174]
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that Allah's Messenger used to recite in witr the surah al-Aala, al-Kafirun and al-Ikhlas, rakah by rakah. [Ahmed 2720, Nisai 1698, Ibn e Majah 1172]
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