Volume 1, Book 8, Number 461:
Narrated Nafi’:
Ibn ‘Umar said, “While the Prophet was on the pulpit, a man asked him how to offer the night
prayers. He replied, ‘Pray two Rakat at a time and then two and then two and so on, and if you are
afraid of the dawn (the approach of the time of the Fajr prayer) pray one Rak’a and that will be the
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witr for all the Rakat which you have offered.” Ibn ‘Umar said, “The last Rakat of the night prayer
should be odd for the Prophet ordered it to be so.