Delaying the Night Prayer in Ramadān Till the Last Part of the Night
Abu Dawūd As-Sijistānī (d. 275H) said,
“It was said to Ahmad while I was listening, ‘Should the Qiyām—meaning the Tarāwīh—be delayed till the last part of the night?’ He replied, ‘No. The Sunnah of the Muslims is more beloved to me.’ Ahmad would stand in prayer with the people until he had prayed the Witr with them and he would not turn away until the imām had finished. I witnessed him through the month of Ramadān, and throughout all of it, he performed the Witr along with the imām….”
Masā’il Al-Imām Ahmad,
p. 90.
Translation source: abukhadeejah.com
