So when a third of the night remains...

So when a third of the night remains, a whiteness appears from the easterly direction, and the world is illuminated for it. So it happens to be for a while, then it goes away, and it is the time for the night Salāt . Then it darkens before the dawn. Then the true dawn emerges from the easterly direction’. قَالَ وَ مَنْ أَرَادَ أَنْ يُصَلِّيَ صَلَاةَ اللَّيْلِ فِي نِصْفِ اللَّيْلِ فَذَلِكَ لَهُ . He -asws said: ‘And the one who intends to pray the night Salāt during midnight, so that is for him’.

Then he -saww would stand, so he -saww would brush his -saww teeth and perform ablution, and he -saww would pray four Rak’at of Salāt . Then he -saww would lie down until when it was during the face of the morning, he -saww would stand, so he -saww would perform (Salāt) Al- Witr , then pray the two Rak’at of Salāt ’. ثُمَّ قَالَ لَقَدْ كانَ لَكُمْ فِي رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ قُلْتُ مَتَى كَانَ يَقُومُ قَالَ بَعْدَ ثُلُثِ اللَّيْلِ وَ قَالَ فِي حَدِيثٍ آخَرَ بَعْدَ نِصْفِ اللَّيْلِ.

Then he -asws said: ‘ [33:21] Certainly you have in Rasool-Allah an excellent exemplar ’. I said, ‘When was he -saww standing (for the night Salāt )?’ He -asws said ‘After a third of the night’. And he -asws said in another Hadeeth: ‘After half the night’.