The ruling on praying Witr with three, five, or seven consecutive rak'ahs

The Shaykh:
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The presenter:
our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions.

The Shaykh:
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The questioner:
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) was asked about a Shafi'i imam who leads a congregation of Hanafis and Shafi'is, and the Hanafis are present for the Witr? And he was asked. And he was asked about a Shafi'i imam who leads a congregation of Hanafis and Shafi'is, and the Hanafis are alone for the Witr? So he answered, and regarding. And regarding the Hanafis being alone for the Witr. And if. The Hanafis. What? And regarding the Hanafis being alone for the Witr. Regarding the Witr. Yes.

The Shaykh:
So he answered: It is established in the two Sahihs from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he said And it is established in the Sahih from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he The position of the majority of the scholars is that all of this is permissible, and that Witr with three with one taslim is also permissible, as the Sunnah has come. But these are hadiths that did not reach all the jurists, so some of them disliked Witr with three consecutively like the Maghrib prayer, as was transmitted from Malik, and some of the Shafi'is and Hanbalis, and some of them disliked Witr with anything other than that, as was transmitted from Abu Hanifah, and some of them disliked Witr with five, seven, and nine consecutively, as was said by some of the followers of al-Shafi'i, Ahmad, and Malik. The correct view is that if the imam does something of what the Sunnah has come with, and prays Witr in one of the manners mentioned, the ma'mum follows him in that, and Allah knows best. This is the correct view; the reliance is on the Sunnah, and there is no regard for the disagreement; the reliance is on the Sunnah. So if he prays Witr with three all together, or five all together, or seven all together with one taslim, there is no harm; the Sunnah is established with this. It is established that he sometimes used to pray Witr with three all together, not sitting except at the end, and with five all together, and with seven all together; there is no harm in that. In some narrations, he sat in the sixth for the first tashahhud, then he came with the seventh, and so it came in the nine: he sat in the eighth for the first tashahhud, then he stood and came with the ninth. As for the five, he did not sit in them; he recited them five in a row, and the three, he did not sit in them; he recited them three in a row. So if he recites five all together or three all together, there is no harm in that, but the best is to say the taslim from every two; this is the best, due to his saying (peace and blessings be upon him) , narrated by the two Shaykhs, al-Bukhari and Muslim, in the two Sahihs, and in a narration of the people of the Sunan and Ahmad: , and its chain is also good. So the Sunnah is thus, two by two; this is the best, then he prays Witr with one. But if he recites three all together, but he does not make it like the Maghrib, he recites them all with one sitting, or five all together, there is no harm, or the seven, he has a choice in it: if he wishes, he recites them all together, and if he wishes, he sits in the sixth for the first tashahhud, then he comes with the seventh. As for the nine, he sits in the eighth, in the first prostration, then he comes with the ninth. And the best is to say the taslim from every two; this is the best, and this is the most common of his actions (peace and blessings be upon him). Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said: He used to pray ten rak'ahs of the night prayer, saying the taslim from every two, then he would pray Witr with one. And in the two Sahihs, from the hadith of Ibn 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both), from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), he said: Yes. Yes. If the single cause came, but he sits in the eighth, the first tashahhud. Yes. No, the seven, he has a choice in it: if he wishes, he sits in the sixth, and if he wishes, he recites them in a row. And what came regarding the nine is sitting; it did not come that he recites them in a row. What came, as far as we know, is sitting in the eighth for the first tashahhud, then he comes with the ninth. But the best is to say the taslim from every two; this is the perfection.