I asked Ubayy bin Kaab , "Your brother Ibn Masud says, 'Whoever stands in prayer the whole year will catch Laylat al-Qadr.'"He replied, "May Allah have mercy on him. He intended that people should not rely on a single night and neglect the others. But he knew well that it is in Ramadan, and that it is in the last ten nights, and that it is the twenty-seventh night."Then he swore, without making any exception, that it was the twenty-seventh night.I asked, "On what basis do you say this, Abu al-Mundhir?"He answered, "By the sign, or the indication, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ told us about, that the sun rises that day without any rays."
سألت أبي بن كعب رضي الله عنه، فقلت: إن أخاك ابن مسعود يقول: من يقم الحول يصب ليلة القدر؟ فقال: رحمه الله أراد أن لا يتكل الناس، أما إنه قد علم أنها في رمضان، وأنها في العشر الأواخر، وأنها ليلة سبع وعشرين- ثم حلف لا يستثنى- أنها ليلة سبع وعشرين فقلت: بأي شيء تقول ذلك يا أبا المنذر؟ قال: بالعلامة أو بالآية التي أخبرنا رسول الله ﷺ: أنها تطلع يومئذ لا شعاع لها.
Muslim narrated it in the Book of Fasting (762:220) via Sufyan bin Uyayna, from Abda and Asim bin Abu Najud, who both heard Zirr bin Hubaysh saying (as mentioned above). Abda is Ibn Abu Lubaba. In Sunan Abu Dawud (1378) and elsewhere, "The sun rises on the morning of that night like a basin, without rays, until it climbs high." The "basin" means it is dim, without light.