How Imām Shāfiʿī Divided His Nights

Shaykh ʿAbd al-Faṭṭāḥ Abū Ghuddah cited from Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ that Imām Shāfiʿī would divide his nights into three parts. In the first third of the night, he would write. In the second third, he would pray. And in the last third, he would sleep.

(Qīmat al-Zaman, 60)