Chapter 60
Remembrance 17 from Chapter 60
What to say when one intends to sleep and is lying in bed
Arabic
Romanisation
Allāhumma bismika Rabbī waḍa‘tu jambī, fā-ghfir lī dhambī.
Context
We also relate, in [the same source], from ‘Amr ibn al-‘Āṣ
that when the Messenger of Allah
lay down to sleep he used to say: “O Allah, in Your name, my Lord, do I lay down my side, so forgive me my sins.” [29].
References
[29] Ibn as-Sunnī (719), with a slight change in wording, and al-Futūḥāt (3/164). Ibn Ḥajar references it from aṭ-Ṭabarānī and graded it as ḥasan.