Chapter 35
Remembrance 4 from Chapter 35
What to say after the takbīrāt al-iḥrām
Arabic
Romanisation
Lā ilāha illā Anta subḥānak, ẓalamtu nafsī wa ‘amiltu sū’an fa-ghfir lī, innahu lā yaghfiru-dh-dhunūba illā Ant, wajjahtu wajhī. . .
Context
We relate in the Sunan of al-Bayhaqī that ‘Alī 
reported that when the Messenger of Allah 
began the ṣalāh he would say: “There is no god but You. Glory be to You. I have wronged myself and I have done evil, so forgive me, for none forgives sins except You. I have turned my face” and so on. [2].This is a weak hadith, since the narrator, al-Ḥārith al-A‘war, is agreed by all to be weak. Ash-Sha‘bī calls al-Ḥārith a liar. Allah knows best.
References
[2] Al-Bayhaqī (2/33) and al-Futūḥāt (2/178–179). Ibn Ḥajar mentions that the narrator, al-Ḥārith al-A‘war, was declared trustworthy by some hadith scholars.