Hadith 1929

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Muhammadibn Ibrahim that Abd ar-Rahman ibn Abi Amra al-Ansari said that Uthmanibn Affan came to the isha prayer and seeing only a few people in themosque, he lay down at the back of the mosque to wait for the numberof people to increase. Ibn Abi Amra went and sat down beside him andUthman asked him who he was, so he told him. Uthman said, "What haveyou memorised of the Qur'an?", and he told him. Uthman said, "Ifsomeone is present at isha, it is as if he had stood in prayer forhalf a night, and if some one is present at subh, it is as if he hadstood in prayer for a whole night.