Chapter 60
Remembrance 19 from Chapter 60
What to say when one intends to sleep and is lying in bed
Arabic
Romanisation
Allāhumma innī as’aluka ru’yā ṣāliḥah, ṣādiqatan ghayra kādhibah, nāfi‘atan ghayra ḍārrah.
Context
It is reported that when ‘Ā’ishah 
was about to go to sleep she said: “O Allah, I ask You for a pious dream, true and not false, beneficial and not harmful.” When she said that, it was known that she was not to be spoken to until the morning or until she woke up at night. [33].
References
[33] Ibn as-Sunnī (748) and al-Futūḥāt (3/170). Ibn Ḥajar states that it was reported by Ibn as-Sunnī via two chains, and is a mawqūf narration with a ṣaḥīḥ chain.