CHAPTER: THE MOST EXCELLENT PRAYER IS ONE IN WHICH ONE STANDS FOR A LONGER TIME
No. 1652
Jabir reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: The most excellent prayer is that in which the duration of standing is longer.
No. 1653
Jabir reported: The Messenger of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) was asked about the prayer which was most excellent. He said: That in which the standing is longer. (This hadith is narrated by another chain of transmitters too.)
No. 1654
Jabir said he heard Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) say: There is an hour during the night in which no Muslim individual will ask Allaah for good in this world and the next without His giving it to him; and that applies to every night.
No. 1655
Jabir reported: I heard the Prophet of Allaah (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: There is an hour during the night in which no Muslim bondman will ask Allaah for good in this world and the next but He will grant it to him.