It is narrated from Abdul Rahman bin Abi Amrah Al-Bukhari that he asked Sayyiduna Ubadah bin Samit (may Allah be pleased with him) about Witr, so he replied, "It is a very excellent and good deed. The Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and, after him, the Muslims practiced it, and it is not obligatory." Imam Abu Bakr (may Allah have mercy on him) says, "I have mentioned in Kitab al-Kabir those statements of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in which he informed that Allah Almighty has made five prayers obligatory upon you and your Ummah in the day and night." So these narrations indicate that the person who declares Witr obligatory upon the servants, in fact, declares six prayers obligatory upon them in the day and night—and this is against the statements of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). It is also against what the learned and the ignorant among the Muslims understand. It is against what the veiled women have understood in their seclusion, what the children have understood in the schools and madrasahs, and what the slaves and slave-girls have understood—because all these people know that the obligatory prayers are five, not six.