How sound is the hadith of Ibn Abbas: "I was having lunch with Umar ibn al-Khattab in Ramadan, and he heard a shriek, so he asked, 'What is this?' It was said, 'The people have abandoned the Witr prayer,'" as narrated by Al-Waqidi?
The aforementioned hadith was narrated by Al-Waqidi with his chain of transmission, and there is a consensus on its weakness. It was not transmitted by the compilers of the famous books.
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