In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. Indeed, We sent the Quran down during the Night of Decree. [97:1] And what can make you know what is the Night of Decree? [97:2] The Night of Decree is better than a thousand months. [97:3] The angels and the Spirit descend therein by permission of their Lord for every matter. [97:4] Peace it is until the emergence of dawn. [97:5] Allah revealed the Quran in this night. He sent it to the heaven nearest to the world all at once during this night. The night is peace, which according to some scholars means that every portion of this night is filled with good up until the time for Fajr. Others have said it means that the devil cannot perform any act of evil and mischief in it. The angels descend in this night along with Blessings and Mercy. According to some scholars, the Spirit referred to in the Surah refers to Jibraeel while others have said it refers to a group of Angles. Narrated Ibn `Umar: Some men amongst the companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) were shown in their dreams that the night of Qadr was in the last seven nights of Ramadan. Allahs Messenger (ﷺ) said, It seems that all your dreams agree that (the Night of Qadr) is in the last seven nights, and whoever wants to search for it (i.e. the Night of Qadr) should search in the last seven (nights of Ramadan). [Sahih Bukhari - Virtues of the Night of Qadr - Chapter: To look for the night of Qadr in the last seven nights (of Ramadan) - Hadith No. 2015] Ibn Umar (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allahs Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: Seek it (Lailat-ul-Qadr) in the last (ten nights). If one among you shows slackness and weakness (in the earlier part of Ramadan), it should not be allowed to prevail upon him in the last week. [Sahih Muslim - The Book of Fasting - Chapter: The virtue of Lailat Al-Qadr and the Exhortation to seek it; When it is and the most likely times to seek it - Hadith No. 271] Abdullah b. Unais reported Allahs Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: I was shown Lailat-ul-Qadr; then I was made to forget it, and saw that I was prostrating in water and clay in the morning of that (night). He (the narrator) said: There was a downpour on the twenty-third night and the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) led us in prayer, and as he went back, there was a trace of water and clay on his forehead and on his nose. He (the narrator) said: Abdullah b. Unais used to say that it was the twenty-third (night). [Sahih Muslim - The Book of Fasting - Chapter: The virtue of Lailat Al-Qadr and the Exhortation to seek it; When it is and the most likely times to seek it - Hadith No. 281] Zirr b. Habaish reported: I asked Ubayy b. Kab (Allah be pleased with him): Your brother (in faith) Ibn Masud says: He who stands (for the night prayer) throughout the year would find Lailat-ul-Qadr, whereupon he said: May Allah have mercy upon him; (he said these words) with the intention that people might not rely only (on one night), whereas he knew that it (Lailat-ul-Qadr) is in the month of Ramadan and it is the twenty-seventh night. He then took oath (without making any exception, i. e. without saying In sha Allah) that it was the twenty-seventh night. I said to him: Abu Mundhir, on what ground do you say that? Thereupon he said: By the indication or by the sign which the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gave us, and that is that on that day (the sun) would rise without having any ray in it. [Sahih Muslim - The Book of Fasting - Chapter: The virtue of Lailat Al-Qadr and the Exhortation to seek it; When it is and the most likely times to seek it. Haidith No. 283] Abu Huraira reported Allahs Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: He who observed the fasts of Ramadan with faith and seeking reward (from Allah), all his previous sins would be forgiven, and he who observed prayer on Lailat-ul- Qadr with faith and seeking reward (from Allah), all his previous sins would be forgiven. [Sahih Muslim - The Book of Prayer - Travelers - Chapter: Encouragement To Observe Prayers During Ramadan And That Is Tarawih - Hadith No. 209] -------------------------------------------------------- Source: Tafsir Ibn Katheer library.islamweb.net/newlibrary/display_book.php?flag=1&bk_no=49&surano=97&ayano=4 --------------------------------------------------------
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