My beloved instructed me to do three things, which I will never abandon as long as I live: to fast three days of every month, to pray the forenoon prayer, and not to sleep until I have performed the witr prayer.
أوصاني حبيبي بثلاث، لن أدعهن ما عشت: بصيام ثلاثة أيام من كل شهر، وصلاة الضحى، وبأن لا أنام حتى أوتر.
Muslim narrated it in the Book of the Prayer of Travelers (722), from Harun bin Abdullah and Muhammad bin Rafi, who both said, Ibn Abu Fudayk narrated to us, from Dahhak bin Uthman, from Ibrahim bin Abdullah bin Hunain, from Abu Mura, the freed slave of Umm Hani, from Abu Darda, who mentioned it.