كَانُوا۟
Kānūa
Quran 51 : 17
They used to little of the night [what] sleep.
قَلِيلًا
Qalīlana
مِّنَ
Mmina
ٱلَّيْلِ
Allayli
مَا
Mā
يَهْجَعُونَ
Yahjaʿūna
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
They used to rarely sleep the whole night.
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
They were in the habit of sleeping but little by night
Wahiduddin Khan
sleeping little in the night-time
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
They used to sleep but little of the night
The Wise Quran
They used to sleep but little of the night;
The Study Quran
Little of the night did they slumber
Talal Itani (2012)
They used to sleep a little at night
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
They hardly slept during the night.
T.B.Irving
they used to slumber only a portion of the night
Syed Vickar Ahamed
They were in the habit of sleeping but little by night
Sher Ali
They slept but a little of the night
Shakir
They used to sleep but little in the night
Shabbir Ahmed
And rarely did they fall asleep at night without reflection. ('Haju' = Fall asleep instantly like an exhausted horse)
Samy Mahdy
They were, a little from the night, resting.
Safi Kaskas
They used to sleep a little at night,
Rashad Khalifa
Rarely did they sleep the whole night.
N J Dawood 2014
sleeping but little in the night-time
Mustaqim
They slept little at night.
Mustafa Khattab 2018
they used to sleep only little in the night,
Musharraf Hussain
they slept little at night,
MunirMezyed2023
They used to sleep but a little of the night,
Munir Mezyed
They used to sleep but a little of the night,
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
They used to sleep little in the night
Muhammad Sarwar
They slept very little during the nigh
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
They used to sleep but little of the night
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
They used to slumber (only) little of the night
Muhammad Asad
they would lie asleep during but a small part of the night
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
They were little from the night what they (spend in) sleep
Mohammad Shafi
They slept but little at nigh
Mir Aneesuddin
It was (only) a small (part) of the night (during) which they used to sleep,
Maulana Muhammad Ali
The used to sleep but little at night
Maududi
they used to sleep but little by night
Linda "iLham" Barto
They had a habit of sleeping only a little at night.
John Medows Rodwell
But little of the night was it that they slept
Irving/Hegab
they used to slumber only a portion of the night
Hilali - Khan
They used to sleep but little by night (invoking their Lord (Allah) and praying, with fear and hope)
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
They slept but a little at night
Hamid S. Aziz
They used to sleep but little in the night
George Sale
They slept but a small part of the night
Fode Drame
They used to sleep but little in the night.
Faridul Haque
They used to sleep only a little during the night
Edward Henry Palmer
But little of the night they slept
Dr. Munir Munshey
They did not sleep much at night, but only a part of the time
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
They used to sleep at night only for a short while
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
They had been slumbering little during the night.
Dr. Kamal Omar
They are — a small period out of the night which they pass in rest and sleep
Corpus.Quran
They used to little of the night [what] sleep
Bilal Muhammad 2018
They were in the habit of sleeping only a little at night
Bijan Moeinian
They cut their sleeping at night short to worship their Lord
Bakhtiari Nejad
They used to sleep a little of the night,
Arthur John Arberry
Little of the night would they slumber
Amatul Rahman Omar
They were in the habit of sleeping but a little by night (for their being occupied in God's worship)
Ali Ãœnal
They used to sleep but little by night (almost never missing the Tahajjud Prayer)
Ali Quli Qara'i
They used to sleep a little during the night
Aisha Bewley
The part of the night they spent asleep was small
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
They used to sleep little by night.
Ahmed Hulusi
They would sleep in a small portion of the night.
Ahmed Ali
They slept little in the night
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
Little of the night they were wont to slumber
Abdul Hye
They used to sleep but little by the night,
Abdel Haleem
sleeping only little at night