Softening The Heart: Kitāb az-Zuhd wa’r-Raqāʾiq

by Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak

‘The superiority of the night prayer over the day prayer is like the superiority of secret charity over public charity.’ (Ṭabarānī in Kabīr 8998 and Abū Nuʿaym in Ḥilyah 4:166).3