كَانُوا۟ قَلِيلًۭا مِّنَ ٱلَّيْلِ مَا يَهْجَعُونَ
kaanoo qaleelam minal laili maa yahja'oon
They used to sleep but little of the night,
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Qualities of the believers
51:17Ayah 160
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Little of the night did they use to sleep mā is extra; yahja‘ūna is the predicate of kānū; qalīlan ‘little’ is an adverb in other words they used to sleep for a small portion of the night and perform prayers during most of it
Related Hadiths
“I never used to see the Prophet
(ﷺ) at the end of the night, except that he was sleeping near me.”
"He would sleep like that while he was sitting up."
In my house he (Prophet (p.b.u.h) ) never passed the last hours of the night but sleeping.
We used to have a midday nap and take our meals after the Jumua (prayer).
I used to see dreams, but the hadith transmitted on the authority of Laith b. Nu`man, the words of Abu Salama at the concluding part of the hadith are not mentioned. Ibn Rumh has reported in the hadith: "He (one who sleeps) should change the side on which he had been lying before."
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