49. Importance of the Tahajjud Time

عن أبي هُرَيْرَةَ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قال يَنْزِلُ رَبُّنَا تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى كُلَّ لَيْلَةٍ إلى السَّمَاءِ الدُّنْيَا حين يَبْقَى ثُلُثُ اللَّيْلِ الْآخِرُ فيقول من يَدْعُونِي فَأَسْتَجِيبَ له وَمَنْ يَسْأَلُنِي فَأُعْطِيَهُ وَمَنْ يَسْتَغْفِرُنِي فَأَغْفِرَ له

Abu Hurayrah (rta) reported that God’s Messenger (sws) said: “The Almighty descends on the lower sky every night when the last one-third part [of it] remains and says: ‘Who is there to invoke Me so that I may answer his invocations; who is there to ask Me so that I may give to him; who is there to seek forgiveness from Me so that I may forgive him.’”[1]

[1]. Muslim, Al-Jami‘ al-sahih, vol.1, 521, (no. 758).