Narrated Ibn Juraij from Nafi`:`Abdullah bin `Umar said, "Once Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was busy (at the time of the `Isha'), so the prayer was delayed so much so that we slept and woke up and slept and woke up again. The Prophet (ﷺ) came out and said, 'None amongst the dwellers of the earth but you have been waiting for the prayer." Ibn `Umar did not find any harm in praying it earlier or in delaying it unless he was afraid that sleep might overwhelm him and he might miss the prayer, and sometimes he used to sleep before the `Isha' prayer. Ibn Juraij said, "I said to `Ata', 'I heard Ibn `Abbas saying: Once Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) delayed the `Isha' prayer to such an extent that the people slept and got up and slept again and got up again. Then `Umar bin Al-Khattab I, stood up and reminded the Prophet (ﷺ) I of the prayer.' `Ata' said, 'Ibn `Abbas said: The Prophet came out as if I was looking at him at this time, and water was trickling from his head and he was putting his hand on his head and then said, 'Hadn't I thought it hard for my followers, I would have ordered them to pray (`Isha' prayer) at this time.' I asked `Ata' for further information, how the Prophet had kept his hand on his head as he was told by Ibn `Abbas. `Ata' separated his fingers slightly and put their tips on the side of the head, brought the fingers downwards approximating them till the thumb touched the lobe of the ear at the side of the temple and the beard on the face. He neither slowed nor hurried in this action but he acted like that. The Prophet (ﷺ) said: "Hadn't I thought it hard for my followers I would have ordered them to pray at this time."
Reference
Sahih al-Bukhari 570, 571
In-book reference
Book 9, Hadith 47
USC-MSA web (English)
Vol. 1, Book 10, Hadith 545
Translation by Dr. M. Muhsin Khan · Language: EN
Sahih
It is related from 'Abdullah ibn 'Umar, "One night the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was kept from us by some business and delayed the prayer to the point that we went to sleep in the mosque and then woke up and then went to sleep and woke up again. Then the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, came out to us and then said, "No people on the earth would have waited for the prayer except you.'" Ibn 'Umar did not mind advancing or delaying the prayer when he was not afraid that sleep would overcome him and keep him from praying it in its time. He used to lie down before it. Ibn Jurayj said, "I spoke to 'Ata' and he said, 'I heard Ibn 'Abbas, say, "One night the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, delayed 'Isha' until the people had gone to sleep and woken up, and then gone to sleep and woken up again. 'Umar got up and said, "The prayer!"' 'Ata' said that Ibn 'Abbas said, 'The Prophet of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, came out - and it is as if I could see him him now - with water dripping from his head - and, placing his hand on his head, he said, "If it were not hard for my community, I would have commanded them to pray it at this time."' I asked 'Ata' to confirm how the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, had placed his hand on his head as he had been told by Ibn 'Abbas. 'Ata' separated his fingers slightly for me and then placed the tips of his fingers on the side of his head with his thumb touching the top of his ear by his face between the temple and the top of the beard. He did it neither slowly nor quickly but like that. He said, 'If it were not hard for my community, I would have commanded them to pray at this time.'" XXIV CHAPTER: The time of 'Isha' extends up until the middle of the night Abu Barza said, "The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to prefer to delay it."
Reference
Sahih al-Bukhari 570, 571
In-book reference
Book 9, Hadith 47
USC-MSA web (English)
Vol. 1, Book 10, Hadith 545
Translation by Aisha Bewley · Language: EN
Sahih
