Chapter 187

What to say upon sighting one’s homeland

Remembrance 1
IT IS MUSTAḤABB to say what we mentioned in the hadith from Anas Honorific symbol in the previous chapter. It is also mustaḥabb to say upon seeing one’s homeland: “O Allah, give us stability and good sustenance in it.” [1].
Arabic text from the source edition
Allāhumma-j‘al la-nā bihā qarāran wa rizqan ḥasanā.

References

[1] Al-Futūḥāt (5/175). Imam an-Nawawī does not specify the book of hadiths in which this invocation can be found. It is a ḥasan hadith and is present in the Kitāb ad-Du‘ā’ of aṭ-Ṭabarānī. Ibn Ḥajar mentions a supporting narration for it.