Chapter 51

Remembrance 13 from Chapter 51

What to say in the morning and the evening

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Romanisation

Allāhumma Fāṭira-s-samāwāti wa-l-arḍ, ‘Ālima-l-ghaybi wa-sh-shahāda, Rabba kulli shay’in wa Malīkah, ashhadu an lā ilāha illā Ant, a‘ūdhu bika min sharri nafsī wa min sharri-sh-Shayṭāni wa shirkih.

Context

We relate with a ṣaḥīḥ isnād in the Sunans of Abū Dāwūd and at-Tirmidhī that Abū Hurayrah Honorific symbol reported that Abū Bakr aṣ-Ṣiddīq Honorific symbol once said: “Messenger of Allah, instruct me with some words to say in the morning and in the evening.” He Honorific symbol replied: “Say: O Allah, Creator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of the Unseen and the Seen, Lord and Sovereign of all things, I bear witness that there is no god but You. I seek refuge with You from the evil of my soul and the evil and polytheism of Shayṭān.” He continued: “Say this when you get up in the morning and in the evening and when you go to bed.” [14].At-Tirmidhī described this as a ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ hadith.

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References
[14] At-Tirmidhī (3389) in ad-Da‘awāt, grading it as ṣaḥīḥ, Abū Dāwūd (5067), Ibn as-Sunnī (45), an-Nasā’ī (11), both in ‘Amal al-yawm wa al-laylah, and al-Ḥākim (1/513), who grades it as ṣaḥīḥ and adh-Dhahabī agrees. Ibn Ḥajar indicated that this hadith is ṣaḥīḥ. It is also reported by Aḥmad (1/9), ad-Dārimī (2292), Ibn Ḥibbān in Mawārid az-zamān (3349), al-Bukhārī in al-Adab al-mufrad (1202), al-Futūḥāt (3/96), and others.

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