Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #26628

Hanad narrated to us, Malazem bin Amr narrated to us, Abdullah bin Badr narrated to me, on the authority of Qais bin Talq bin Ali, on the authority of his father, he said: I heard the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, says, “Do not have two night prayers in one night.” Abu Issa said, “This is a good and strange hadith.” The people of knowledge differed as to who He performs the Witr prayer at the beginning of the night, then gets up at the end of it. Some of the people of knowledge among the Companions of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and those after them saw that he broke the Witr prayer and said: He adds a rak'ah to it and prays as long as he wants, then prays Witr at the end of his prayer, because “there is no two Witr prayers in a night.” And he is the one who went. To him is Isaac. Some of the people of knowledge among the Companions of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and others said: When he performed Witr prayer at the beginning of the night, then he fell asleep and then got up at the end of the night. At night, he prays as long as he wants and does not break his Witr prayer and leaves his Witr as it was. This is the saying of Sufyan Al-Thawri. And Malik bin Anas, Ibn Al-Mubarak, Al-Shafi’i, the people of Kufa, and Ahmad. This is more correct because it has been narrated through more than one source that the Prophet May God bless him and grant him peace. He prayed after Witr.