It was narrated from ‘Abdullah bin ‘Amr that the Prophet (ﷺ) said:“When you pray Fajr, its time is until the first part of the sun appears. When you pray Zuhr, its time is until ‘Asr comes. When you pray ‘Asr, its time is until the sun turns yellow. When you pray Maghrib, its time is until the twilight has disappeared. When you pray Isha, its time is until half of the night has passed.”Sahih Muslim, Book 5, Hadith 219 · 612a
Last Third of the Night
Begins
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It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:“Our Lord, may He be Blessed and Exalted, comes down to the lowest heaven every night when the last third of the night is left, and He says: ‘Who will call upon Me, that I may answer him? Who will ask of Me, that I may give him? Who will ask Me for forgiveness, that I may forgive him?’”Narrated by al-Bukhari 1145 · Muslim 758
Salah Times
Fajr
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Sunrise
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Zuhr
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Asr
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Maghrib
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Isha
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Prayer times are based on the London Unified Prayer Timetable
Evidence that the time of Isha extends until the midpoint between Maghrib and the following Fajr.
1 · The explicit wording of the hadith
“… and when you pray Isha, its time is until half of the night has passed.”
Defining the end of each prayer’s time, the Prophet (ﷺ) states plainly that the time of Isha lasts until half of the night has passed.
Sahih Muslim 612a
2 · Half the night named as the limit
“Were it not that it would be too hard for my Ummah, I would have commanded them to delay Isha until a third of the night, or half of it.”
The Prophet (ﷺ) points to half the night as the furthest Isha could be delayed, again identifying the midpoint as the boundary of its time.
Reported by al-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah
3 · The teaching of Jibril
When Jibril led the Prophet (ﷺ) in prayer over two days to teach him the prayer times, on the second day he prayed Isha at the end of its time, then said: “The time is between these two times.”
Reported by al-Tirmidhi and Ahmad
The view of the scholars
Shaykh Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani (rahimahullaah)
Regarding the Ishaa prayer, he said:
“Its concluding time is when it is the middle of the night.”
Ath-Thamar al-Mustaṭaab, vol. 1, p. 65
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Shaykh Muhammad ibn ‘Uthaymeen (rahimahullaah)
He said:
“The time of Ishaa is until half of the night.”
Sharh al-Mumti’, vol. 2, p. 115
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Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Baz (rahimahullaah)
He mentioned:
“When the afterglow of sunset disappears — and it is the redness in the western direction — the time for Maghrib ends, and the time for Ishaa enters until half of the night, and that which comes after half of the night is a time of pressing need/necessity for the time of Ishaa. So it is impermissible to delay until that which comes after half the night; however that which is after the setting (i.e. disappearance) of the afterglow of sunset until half of the night – all of it is a time of preference for Ishaa. So if one were to pray it after half of the night, he has carried it out in time, however he is sinful, because he delayed it until the time of pressing need/necessity.”