(3) باب فِيمَنْ قَالَ لَيْلَةُ إِحْدَى وَعِشْرِينَ
Narrated AbuSa'id al-Khudri:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Seek it (laylat al-Qadr) in the last ten days of Ramadan. Seek it on the ninth, seventh and fifth night. I (AbuNadrah) said: You know counting better than us, AbuSa'id. He said: Yes. I asked: What do you mean by the ninth, seventh and fifth night? He said: When the twenty-first night passes, the night which follows it is the night; when the twenty-third night passes, the night which follows it is the seventh; when the twenty-fifth passes, the night which follows it is the fifth.Abu Dawud said: I do not know whether anything remained hidden from me or not.
Reference: Sunan Abi Dawud 1383
In-book reference: Book 6, Hadith 13
English translation: Book 6, Hadith 1378