Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا هَمَّامٌ حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي أَنَّ عَائِشَةَ حَدَّثَتْهُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَانَ يَرْقُدُ فَإِذَا اسْتَيْقَظَ تَسَوَّكَ ثُمَّ تَوَضَّأَ ثُمَّ صَلَّى ثَمَانِ رَكَعَاتٍ يَجْلِسُ فِي كُلِّ رَكْعَتَيْنِ فَيُسَلِّمُ ثُمَّ يُوتِرُ بِخَمْسِ رَكَعَاتٍ لَا يَجْلِسُ إِلَّا فِي الْخَامِسَةِ وَلَا يُسَلِّمُ إِلَّا فِي الْخَامِسَةِ.
English Translation
Affan told us: Hammam told us: Hisham ibn Urwa told us: My father told me that Aisha told him that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, used to sleep, and when he woke he would use the tooth-stick, then perform ablution, then pray eight rak'as, sitting after every two rak'as and giving the greeting of peace. Then he would pray Witr with five rak'as, not sitting except in the fifth, and not giving the greeting of peace except in the fifth.