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Surah Adh-Dhariyat, Verse 17

سورة الذاريات، الآية ١٧

51:17 Juz 26 Hizb 52 Page 521 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 51:17

كَانُوا۟ قَلِيلًا مِّنَ ٱلَّيْلِ مَا يَهْجَعُونَ ۝١٧

Transliteration

kānū qalīlan mina al-layli mā yahjaʿūna

Translation

They used to sleep but little of the night,¹⁵³⁸

Notes

[1538] i.e., spending a portion of the night in prayer and supplication.

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Verse 17 of Surah Adh-Dhariyat (51:17), a Meccan surah, is in juz 26, on page 521 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 17

Al-Mukhtasar

They used to pray at night, not sleeping except a little.

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Other translations of verse 17

They used to sleep only a little at night⁴,

Notes

[4] i.e., spending most of the night in prayer, reciting the Qur’an, and in supplication.

They used to sleep but little by night [invoking their Lord (Allâh) and praying, with fear and hope].

They used to sleep but little of the night,

They were in the habit of sleeping but little by night,

They used to sleep but little in the night.

They used to slumber (only) little of the night;

Verse 17 word by word

كَانُوا۟ kānū They used to ك و ن
قَلِيلًا qalīlan little ق ل ل
مِّنَ mina of
ٱلَّيْلِ al-layli the night ل ي ل
مَا mā [what]
يَهْجَعُونَ yahjaʿūna sleep ه ج ع

Hadiths that cite this verse

Differing grades Sunan Abu Dawud 1322

They (the people) used to pray between the Maghrib and 'Isha. The version of Yahya adds: The verse tatajafa junubuhum also means so.

‏ كَانُوا يُصَلُّونَ فِيمَا بَيْنَ الْمَغْرِبِ وَالْعِشَاءِ

Narrated by Anas ibn Mālik

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