Volume 6, Book 60, Number 93:
Narrated Ibn ‘Abbas:
I stayed overnight in the house of my aunt Maimuna. Allah’s Apostle talked with his wife for a
while and then went to bed. When it was the last third of the night, he got up and looked towards
the sky and said:
“Verily! In the creation of the Heavens and the Earth and in the alteration of night and day, there
are indeed signs for men of understanding.” (3.190)
Then he stood up, performed ablution, brushed his teeth with a Siwak, and then prayed eleven
Rakat. Then Bilal pronounced the Adhan (i.e. call for the Fajr prayer). The Prophet then offered two
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Rakat (Sunna) prayer and went out (to the Mosque) and offered the (compulsory congregational)
Fajr prayer.