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RIYADH AS-SALIHIN 207 offer during the night and he offers it at any time between Fajr and Zohar, it is written down for him as if he had offered it during the night (Muslim). 1188. Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: Allah will have mercy on a man who gets up at night for his voluntary Prayer and awakens his wife for the same purpose and if she hesitates he sprinkles water over her face to make her get up, and Allah will have mercy on a woman who gets up at night to offer voluntary Prayer and awakens her husband for the same purpose and if he hesitates sprinkles water over his face to make him get up (Abu. Daud). 1189. Abu Hurairah and Abu Sa'id relate that the Holy Prophet said: If a man awakens his wife at night and they offer Prayer (or offer two raka'as) they are both recorded among those who remember Allah (Muslim). 1190. This hadith is the same as No. 147. 1191. Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: If one of you stands up for Prayer at night and finds it difficult to recite the Quran accurately not being able to keep track of what he is saying, he should go back to sleep (Muslim). 212. . On Voluntary Prayer during Ramadhan 1192. Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: He who maintains voluntary Prayer throughout Ramadhan out of sincerity of faith and in hope of earning merit will have his past sins forgiven him (Bokhari and. Muslim). 1193. Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet would persuade people to offer voluntary Prayer during Ramadhan but would not order them imperatively. He said: He who maintains voluntary Prayer throughout. Ramadhan, out of sincerity of faith and in hope of earning merit, will have his past sins forgiven him (Muslim). 213. . On Voluntary Prayer during the Night of Decrees. Allah, the Exalted, has said: 288. Surely, We sent down the Quran during the Night of. Decrees. How shouldst thou know what is the Night of. Decrees? The Night of Decrees is better than a thousand months. Therein descend angels and the Spirit by the command of their Lord with their Lord's decrees concerning every matter. It is all peace, till the break of dawn (97. 2-6). 289. We revealed it in a blessed Night (44. 4).