When is the Night of Qadr?
- philhoraia
- Nov 14, 2021
- 2 min read
S 97:2-3 And what will make you know what the Night of Qadr is? The Night of Qadr is better than 1,000 months.
1,000 months is a little over 83 years.
Where in the month of Ramadan should one search for it?
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. Allah's 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).
Narrated `Aisha:
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Search for the Night of Qadr in the odd nights of the last ten days of Ramadan."
Narrated 'Ubada bin As-Samit:
"Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) went out to inform the people about the (date of the) night of decree (Al-Qadr) but there happened a quarrel between two Muslim men. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "I came out to inform you about (the date of) the night of Al-Qadr, but as so and so and so and so quarrelled, its knowledge was taken away (I forgot it) and maybe it was better for you. Now look for it in the 7th, the 9th and the 5th (of the last 10 nights of the month of Ramadan)."
Narrated Abdullah ibn Mas'ud: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to us: Seek it (laylat al-Qadr) on the seventeenth night of Ramadan, and on the twenty first night, and on the twenty-third night. He then kept silence.
Narrated Ibn `Abbas:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Look for the Night of Qadr in the last ten nights of Ramadan ,' on the night when nine or seven or five nights remain out of the last ten nights of Ramadan (i.e. 21, 23, 25, respectively).
Narrated Ibn `Abbas:
Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "The Night of Qadr is in the last ten nights of the month (Ramadan), either on the first nine or in the last (remaining) seven nights (of Ramadan)." Ibn `Abbas added, "Search for it on the twenty-fourth (of Ramadan).
Narrated Mu'awiyah b. Abi Sufyan :
The Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: Lailat al-qadr is the twenty-seventh night (of Ramadan)
Now, what is the night of Qadr? 'Allah' doesn't explain. Why should one search for it? If it is found, what benefit is there? Does it mean that one no longer has to pray? In an article we read: The very first verses of the Quran were sent down to the prophet on Laylat Al Qadr; therefore virtuous deeds and prayers on this night are worth more than a thousand months or a lifetime of worship, making it the most auspicious in Ramadan and the whole year. https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2018/06/248323/laylat-al-qadr-better-thousand-months
Qadr signifies predestination. Does Allah predestine man on one night in Ramadan? As the founder of Islam interfered with the calendar, the month, and therefore the night, can appear in any month of the year.
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