The Isha prayer
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1 To receive the reward of spending half the night in prayer
It was narrated from `Uthman bin `Affan ( may Allah be pleased with him ) said:
the Prophet ( may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him ) said: `Whoever prays `Isha` and Fajr prayer in congregation, it is as if he spent the night in prayer (qiyamul-lail).” ‘Abdur-Rahman said: Whoever prays `Isha` in the congregation, it is as if he spent half the night in prayer, and whoever prays Fajr in the congregation, it is as if he spent the entire night in prayer.
[ Muslim ]
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2 To free myself of the traits of the hypocrites who do not attend the Fajr and Isha prayers
Narrated Abu Hurairah ( may Allah be pleased with him ) the Messenger of Allah ( may Allah be pleased with him ) said:
"The most burdensome prayers for hypocrites are the 'Isha' and the Fajr prayers and if they knew what (rewards) these (prayers) contain, they would have come to them (in the mosques), even though they had to crawl on their knees."
[ Bukhari and Muslim ]
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3 To receive the reward of performing Hajj
Abu Umama, may Allah be pleased with him, said the Messenger of Allah, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said:
" whoever walks to perform a prescribed prayer, it is as if walked to perform Hajj …"
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