حَدَّثَنَا الْقَعْنَبِيُّ عَنْ مَالِکٍ عَنْ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْهَادِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ التَّيْمِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي سَلَمَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ قَالَ کَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَعْتَکِفُ الْعَشْرَ الْأَوْسَطَ مِنْ رَمَضَانَ فَاعْتَکَفَ عَامًا حَتَّی إِذَا کَانَتْ لَيْلَةُ إِحْدَی وَعِشْرِينَ وَهِيَ اللَّيْلَةُ الَّتِي يَخْرُجُ فِيهَا مِنْ اعْتِکَافِهِ قَالَ مَنْ کَانَ اعْتَکَفَ مَعِي فَلْيَعْتَکِفْ الْعَشْرَ الْأَوَاخِرَ وَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ هَذِهِ اللَّيْلَةَ ثُمَّ أُنْسِيتُهَا وَقْدَ رَأَيْتُنِي أَسْجُدُ مِنْ صَبِيحَتِهَا فِي مَائٍ وَطِينٍ فَالْتَمِسُوهَا فِي کُلِّ وِتْرٍ قَالَ أَبُو سَعِيدٍ فَمَطَرَتْ السَّمَائُ مِنْ تِلْکَ اللَّيْلَةِ وَکَانَ الْمَسْجِدُ عَلَی عَرِيشٍ فَوَکَفَ الْمَسْجِدُ فَقَالَ أَبُو سَعِيدٍ فَأَبْصَرَتْ عَيْنَايَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَعَلَی جَبْهَتِهِ وَأَنْفِهِ أَثَرُ الْمَائِ وَالطِّينِ مِنْ صَبِيحَةِ إِحْدَی وَعِشْرِينَ
سنن ابودوٗد · Hadith 1382
Narrated Abu Saeed Al Khudri: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to spend the middle ten days of Ramadan in retirement and devotion (Itikaf) in the mosque. One year he had retirement and devotion in the mosque (as usual); when the twenty-first night came, and this night when he used to come out his devotion in the mosque, he said: He who has engaged himself in devotion along with me should do so during the last ten days; I saw that night, that was caused to forget it, but I have seen myself prostrating in water and mud on the morning following (that night), so seek it in the last ten days and seek it every night with an odd number. Abu Saeed said: Rain fell that night, the mosque that was thatched building dripped, and my eyes saw the Messenger of Allah ﷺ with the traces of water and mud, on his forehead on the morning following the twenty-first night.
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020