Muwatta Malik #249
Prayer in Ramadan
The Arabic includes the chain of narration (sanad) and the collector's commentary; the English translation shows the Prophet's words only.
وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ عَوْفٍ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم كَانَ يُرَغِّبُ فِي قِيَامِ رَمَضَانَ مِنْ غَيْرِ أَنْ يَأْمُرَ بِعَزِيمَةٍ فَيَقُولُ
" مَنْ قَامَ رَمَضَانَ إِيمَانًا وَاحْتِسَابًا غُفِرَ لَهُ مَا تَقَدَّمَ مِنْ ذَنْبِهِ " . قَالَ ابْنُ شِهَابٍ فَتُوُفِّيَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَالأَمْرُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ ثُمَّ كَانَ الأَمْرُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ فِي خِلاَفَةِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ وَصَدْرًا مِنْ خِلاَفَةِ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ .
Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Abu Salama
ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn Awf from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of
Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to exhort people
to watch the night in prayer in Ramadan but never ordered it
definitely. He used to say, "Whoever watches the night in prayer in
Ramadan with trust and expectancy, will be forgiven all his previous
wrong actions."
Ibn Shihab said, "The Messenger of Allah, may
Allah bless him and grant him peace, died while that was still the
custom, and it continued to be the custom in the caliphate of Abu Bakr
and at the beginning of the caliphate of Umar ibn al-Khattab."
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This hadith is #249 from Muwatta Malik, in the Book of Prayer in Ramadan.