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The Night of Mid-Sha’baan – Laylat al-bara'a
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Among the hadiths stressing the status of laylat al-bara'a are the following:

Tirmidhi, Ahmad, and Ibn Majah relate:
From `A'isha (r.a.): I missed the Prophet (saw) one night so I went out to al-Baqi` (and found him). He said: "Were you afraid that Allah would wrong you and that His Prophet would wrong you?" I said: "O Messenger of Allah, I thought that you might have gone to visit one of your wives." He said: "Allah Glorious and Exalted descends to the nearest heaven on the night of mid-Sha’baan and He forgives to more people than the number of hairs on the hides of the sheep of the tribes of Kalb.

Ahmad and Ibn Majah relate:
From `Ali ibn Abi Talib (R.A): The Prophet (saw) said: "The night of mid-Sha’baan let all of you spend in prayer (i.e. partly) and its day (i.e. preceding it) in fasting, for Allah descends to the nearest heaven during that night beginning with sunset and says: Is there no one asking forgiveness that I may forgive them? Is there no one asking sustenance that I may grant them sustenance? Is there no one under trial that I may relieve them?  Is there not such-and-such, is there not such-and-such, and so forth until dawn rises.

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