Abu Sa'id and Abu Huraira reported God’s Messenger as saying,“When a man wakens his wife* during the night and they pray (or he prays) two rak'as together, they are recorded among the men and women who make mention of God.”* The Arabic word is ahl which means“people”or“family”, and sometimes "wife. As the dual is used about them praying together, it obviously means“wife”here; but in Ibn ‘Umar’s tradition below the plural is used, and so the word is there translated“family”. Abu Dawud and Ibn Majah transmitted it.