Ibn ‘Umar reported God’s Messenger as saying, “Prayer during the night should consist of pairs of rak'as, but if one of you fears the morning is near he should pray one rak'a which will make his prayer an odd number for…
He reported God’s Messenger as saying, “The witr* is a rak'a at the end of the night.”
* Literally ‘single’, or ‘odd’, used of an odd number of rak'as prayed at some time during the night.
Muslim transmitted it.
‘A’isha said that God’s Messenger used to pray thirteen rak'as during the night, observing a witr out of that with five, and sitting only during the last of them.
(Bukhari and Muslim.)
Sa‘d b. Hisham said: I went to ‘A’isha and said, “Mother of the faithful, tell me about the nature of God’s Messenger.” She asked, “Do you not recite the Qur’an?” On my replying that I certainly did, she said, “The Proph…
Jabir reported God’s Messenger as saying, "If anyone is afraid that he may not get up in the latter part of the night, he should observe a witr in the first part of it; and if anyone is eager to get up in the last part o…