Sunan ad-Darimi — Hadith #54351

So I said: Tell us about the Witr prayer of the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him. She said: When the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, used to sleep. I have his siwak, and God will send him whenever He wishes to send him, so he will pray nine rak’ahs, not sitting except in the eighth, so he praises God. And he calls upon his Lord, then he gets up and does not say the salutations, then he sits at nine o’clock and praises God and supplicates to his Lord and says the salutations so that he can hear us, then he prays. two rak'ahs while he was sitting, so that is eleven rak'ahs, my son. When the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, established the Sunnah and carried Al-Lahm, he prayed seven rak'ahs, not sitting down except in the sixth, then he thanked God and called upon his Lord, then he stood up and did not give the salutation, then he sat in the seventh. So he praises God and supplicates to his Lord, then he says the salutation, then he prays two rak’ahs while sitting, and that is nine, my son, and it was When the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, was overcome by sleep or illness, he would pray twelve rak’ahs during the day, and the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, was When he gets good manners, he likes to keep doing it, and the Prophet of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, did not stay up one night until morning. He did not recite the entire Qur’an in one night, nor did he fast an entire month other than Ramadan.” So I went to Ibn Abbas and spoke to him, and he said: I tell you the truth. I was entering upon her, and I saw her directly. He said: So I said: If I had felt that you would not enter upon her, I would not have spoken to you.