Sayyidah Umm Habibah bint Abu Sufyan (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever performs twelve units of voluntary prayer in a day, apart from the obligatory prayers, a house will be built for him in Paradise."

Sayyidah Umm Habibah (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates that I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) say: "Whoever prays every day for Allah," then she narrated similar to the above-mentioned narration.

Hazrat Anbasa bin Abu Sufyan said to Amr bin Aws, "Shall I not narrate to you the hadith which Sayyida Umm Habibah (may Allah be pleased with her) has narrated to me?" I said, "Certainly, please narrate it." I think she said this to encourage interest in the hadith and to express happiness in it. He says that Sayyida Umm Habibah (may Allah be pleased with her) narrated to us that indeed the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever performs twelve rak'ahs of voluntary prayers in a day, a house is built for him in Paradise." Hazrat Anbasa says that since I heard about these rak'ahs from Sayyida Umm Habibah (may Allah be pleased with her), I have never left them. Janab Amr bin Aws says that since I heard the hadith about them from Hazrat Anbasa, I have never abandoned these rak'ahs. Janab Nu'man says that since I heard about them from Amr, I have never left them. Janab Dawood says, "But as for us, sometimes we perform them and sometimes we leave them." Janab Ibn 'Ulayyah also said these words or words similar to them. Imam Abu Bakr (may Allah have mercy on him) says that Janab Hushaym has omitted the link of Amr bin Aws in this chain. Whereas the authentic hadith is that of Ibn 'Ulayyah, which is mentioned in the other chapter and has been narrated by Mahbub bin Hasan.

And the evidence that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, only intended by his saying: "in every day"—that is, in every day and night—with clarification of the number of these rak‘ahs before and after the obligatory prayers,

I had already explained in the book "Meanings of the Qur'an" that the Arabs may say "a day" intending its night, and may say "a night" intending its day. Allah, Glorified and Exalted, said in Surah Al Imran: {آيَتُكَ أَلَّا تُكَلِّمَ النَّاسَ ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ إِلَّا رَمْزًا} [آل عمران: ٤١] and He said in Surah Maryam: {آيَتُكَ أَلَّا تُكَلِّمَ النَّاسَ ثَلَاثَ لَيَالٍ سَوِيًّا} [مريم: ١٠] Thus, it is clear that what He meant by His saying in Al Imran: "three days" is with their nights, and it is correct that what He meant by His saying in Surah Maryam: "three nights in succession" is with their days. Allah, Glorified and Exalted, said: {وَوَاعَدْنَا مُوسَى ثَلَاثِينَ لَيْلَةً} [الأعراف: ١٤٢] and knowledge encompasses that He only intended their days, and He said: {وَأَتْمَمْنَاهَا بِعَشْرٍ} [الأعراف: ١٤٢] And the Arabs, when mentioning only the days, say: "ten days," and when mentioning only the nights, say: "ten nights." So the apparent meaning of this phrase, "and We completed them with ten," is in sequence with the thirty that He mentioned before, and what Allah intended is "We completed them with ten nights," meaning with their days.

The noble wife of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), Sayyidah Umm Habibah (may Allah be pleased with her), narrates from the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) that he said: "Whoever performs twelve units (rak‘ahs) of voluntary prayer in a day, Allah will build a house for him in Paradise. Four rak‘ahs before Zuhr, two rak‘ahs after Zuhr, two rak‘ahs before Asr, two rak‘ahs after Maghrib, and two rak‘ahs before the morning (Fajr) prayer."

Sayyidah Umm Habibah (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever performs twelve (voluntary) rak‘ahs, Allah will build a house for him in Paradise: four rak‘ahs before Zuhr, two rak‘ahs after Zuhr, two rak‘ahs before Asr, two rak‘ahs after Maghrib, and two rak‘ahs before Fajr."

When Muhammad bin Abi Sufyan was on his deathbed, he faced great hardship. (At that time) he said that my sister Umm Habibah bint Abi Sufyan narrated to me that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: "Whoever performs four rak‘ahs with diligence and regularity..." Ibn Ma‘mar's wording is: "Whoever performs four rak‘ahs before Zuhr and four rak‘ahs after it, Allah will make the Hellfire forbidden for him."

Lady Umm Habibah (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates from the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said: "Whoever performs four rak‘ahs before Zuhr and four rak‘ahs after it regularly and consistently, the Fire of Hell will be made forbidden for him."

It is narrated from Anbasah that Lady Umm Habibah (may Allah be pleased with her) informed him that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, and narrated a report equal to the one mentioned above.