وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا سَجَىٰ
Wal laili iza sajaa
And [by] the night when it covers with darkness,
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and by the night when it is still — or sajā can mean ‘when it envelops all in its darkness’.
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This hadith has been transmitted by Al-A`mash with a slight variation of words, i.e. he said before its time when it was still dark.
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