1380 — Aḥmad ibn Yūnus narrated to us, Zuhayr narrated to us, Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq narrated to us, Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us, from Ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Unays al-Juhanī, from his father, who said: I said, "O Messenger of Allah, I have a desert land where I dwell, and I pray there with praise to Allah. So command me of a night in which I may descend to this mosque." He said: "Descend on the night of the twenty-third." I said to his son: "How did your father used to act?" He said: "He would enter the mosque after praying the afternoon prayer, and would not leave it for any need until he had prayed the morning prayer. When he had prayed the morning prayer, he would find his mount at the door of the mosque, so he would sit upon it and catch up with his desert land."

(1) A sound hadith, and this chain is good. Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq explicitly stated that he heard it in narration.
It was also recorded by Ibn Khuzaymah (2200), al-Ṭaḥāwī in *Sharḥ Maʿānī al-Āthār* 3/88, and al-Bayhaqī 4/309 via the path of Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, with this chain. Zuhayr is Ibn Muʿāwiyah. It was also recorded in similar form by Mālik in *al-Muwaṭṭaʾ* 1/320, ʿAbd al-Razzāq in his *Muṣannaf* (7689–7692) and (7694), Ibn Abī Shaybah 2/514 and 3/73, Ibn Khuzaymah (2185) and (2186), al-Ṭaḥāwī in *Sharḥ Maʿānī al-Āthār* 3/85, 86, and 87, al-Ṭabarānī in *al-Kabīr* (2199), and *al-Awsaṭ* (2858) and (6568), al-Bayhaqī in *al-Sunan al-Kubrā* 4/309–310, and in *al-Shuʿab* (3675) and (3676), al-Khaṭīb in *Taʾrīkh Baghdād* 4/186, Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr in *al-Tamhīd* 21/210 and 2/206, al-Baghawī in his commentary on verse (2) of Sūrat al-Qadr, and Ibn al-Athīr in his biography of Jaḥsh al-Juhanī in *Usd al-Ghābah* 1/326, and in his biography of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Unays al-Juhanī 3/179, via multiple paths from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Unays al-Juhanī, with this chain.
It was also recorded by Aḥmad (16045) and Muslim (1168) via the path of Busr ibn Saʿīd, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Unays, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "I was shown the Night of Decree, then I was made to forget it, and I was shown its morning, that I was prostrating in water and mud." He said: "So we were rained upon on the night of the twenty-third, and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, led us in prayer, then departed, and indeed the traces of water and mud were on his forehead and nose." He said: "And ʿAbd Allāh ibn Unays used to say: the twenty-third." And see what precedes it.