(22) CHAPTER. Superiority of the lsha prayer.
Narrated `Aisha: Allah's Apostle once delayed the `Isha' prayer and that was during the days when Islam still had not spread. The Prophet did not come out till `Umar informed him that the women and children had slept. Then he came out and said to the people of the mosque: None amongst the dwellers of the earth has been waiting for it (`Isha prayer) except you.
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