Arabic (Original)
Ḥadīth | Ṭabarānī (الطبراني) tabarani:9587 حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الرَّازِيُّ ثنا عَلِيُّ بْنُ الْجَعْدِ أنا ابْنُ ثَوْبَانَ عَنْ عَبْدَةَ بْنِ أَبِي لُبَابَةَ عَنْ زِرِّ بْنِ حُبَيْشٍ قَالَ تَذَاكَرُوا عِنْدَ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ لَيْلَةَ الْقَدْرِ فَقَالَ مَنْ قَامَ شَهْرَ رَمَضَانَ كُلَّهُ أَدْرَكَهَا قَالَ فَقَدِمْتُ الْمَدِينَةَ فَذَكَرْتُ ذَلِكَ لِأُبُيٍّ فَقَالَ «وَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ إِنِّي لَأَعْلَمُ أَيَّ لَيْلَةٍ هِي اللَّيْلَةُ الَّتِي أَمَرَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ بِقِيَامِهَا» قَالَ فَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنْهَا فَقَالَ «لَيْلَةُ سَبْعٍ وَعِشْرِينَ» قَالَ عَبْدَةُ «فَإِذَا كَانَ الشَّهْرُ ثَلَاثِينَ قُمْنَا بَعْدَهَا ثَلَاثًا وَإِذَا كَانَ تِسْعًا وَعِشْرِينَ قُمْنَا بَعْدَهَا لَيْلَتَيْنِ»
English Translation
Zirr said: 'They discussed Laylat al-Qadr in the presence of Ibn Mas'ud, and he said: Whoever stands the entire month of Ramadan will find it.' He said: 'I went to Madinah and mentioned that to Ubayy, who said: By the One in Whose Hand is my soul, I know which night it is - the night that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) commanded us to stand in prayer.' I asked him about it, and he said: 'The night of the twenty-seventh.' Abdah said: 'When the month was thirty days, we would stand three nights after it. When it was twenty-nine, we would stand two nights after it.'