قطن بن إبراهيم النيسابوري

ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, the traditionist of Balkh, and Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Sharqī al-Naysābūrī related to us. They said: Qaṭan ibn Ibrāhīm al-Naysābūrī related to us. He said: Ḥafṣ ibn ʿAbd Allāh related to us. He said: Ibrāhīm ibn Ṭahmān informed us, from Abū Ḥanīfa, from Ḥammād, from Ibrāhīm, may God have mercy on them, from Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Jadalī, from Abū Masʿūd al-Anṣārī, may God be pleased with him, who said: The Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, performed witr at the beginning, middle and end of the night, to give Muslims latitude: whichever of these they adopted would be correct. But whoever expects to rise for night prayer should make his witr at the end of the night, for that is better.