Abu Sa'id said: "That night the sky rained, and the mosque was [roofed] with palm branches, so the mosque leaked." Abu Sa'id said: "My own eyes saw the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, with traces of water and mud on his forehead and nose, on the morning of the twenty-first [night]."

1383 – Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna narrated to us, 'Abd al-A'la narrated to us, Sa'id narrated to us, from Abu Nadra, from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Seek it in the last ten [nights] of Ramadan, and seek it on the ninth, the seventh, and the fifth." He said: I said: "O Abu Sa'id, you know the counting better than we do." He said: "Indeed." I said: "What are the ninth, the seventh, and the fifth?" He said: "When twenty-one [nights] have passed, the one that follows is the ninth; when twenty-three have passed, the one that follows is the seventh; and when twenty-five have passed, the one that follows is the fifth."(1)

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= Al-Bukhari also recorded it (813), (2016), (2036), and (2040); Muslim (1167); and Ibn Majah (1766) in abbreviated form, via the chain of Yahya ibn Abi Kathir, from Abu Salama, from him.

It is also in *Musnad Ahmad* (11034) and (11186), and *Sahih Ibn Hibban* (3673) and (3684).

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The passage about the mud and water has already preceded under numbers (894) and (911), and we have documented it there.

(1) Its chain of transmission is sound. 'Abd al-A'la: he is Ibn 'Abd al-A'la, and Sa'id: he is Ibn Abi 'Aruba al-Yashkuri, and Abu Nadra: he is al-Mundhir ibn Malik ibn Qit'a.

Muslim also recorded it (1167) (217) via the chain of 'Abd al-A'la, with this chain of transmission.

Al-Nasa'i recorded something similar in *al-Kubra* (3391) via the chain of Sa'id ibn Iyas al-Jurayri, from Abu Nadra.

It is also in *Musnad Ahmad* (11076) and (11679), and *Sahih Ibn Hibban* (3687).

See what precedes it.