Volume 6, Book 60, Number 96:
Narrated Ibn Abbas:
That once he stayed overnight in the house of his aunt, the wife of the Prophet. He added: I lay on
the cushion transversely while Allah’s Apostle lay along with his wife in the lengthwise direction of
cushion. Allah’s Apostle slept till the middle of the night, either a bit before or a bit after it, and then
woke up rubbing the traces of sleep off his face with his hands, and then recited the last ten Verses of
Suratal-Imran. Then he got up and went to a hanging water skin, performed ablution from it —-
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and performed it perfectly. Then he stood up to perform the prayer. I also did the same 3S he had
done and then went to stand beside him. Allah’s Apostle put his right hand on my head and held and
twisted my right ear. He then offered two Rakat, then two Rakat then two Rakat, then two then two
Rakat, then two Rakat, and finally, one Rak’a Witr. Then lay down again till the Muadhdhin (i.e. the
call-maker) came to him, whereupon he got up and offered a light two Rakat prayer and went out
(to the Mosque) and offered the (compulsory congregational) Fajr prayer.