Chapter 63
Remembrance 1 from Chapter 63
What to say when unable to sleep
Arabic
Romanisation
Allāhumma ghārati-n-nujūm, wa hada’ati-l-‘uyūn, wa Anta Ḥayyun Qayyūm, lā ta’khudhuka sinatun wa lā nawm. Yā Ḥayyu yā Qayyūm, ahdi’ laylī wa anim ‘aynī.
Context
WE RELATE FROM the book of Ibn as-Sunnī that Zayd ibn Thābit 
narrated: “I complained to the Messenger of Allah 
about my sleeplessness and he said: ‘Say: O Allah, the stars have set and the eyes are resting, but You are Ever-Living, Self-Subsisting. You are not overcome by slumber or sleep. O Ever-Living, Self-Subsisting, make my night calm and my eyes sleep.’ I said this and Allah took away from me what I had been experiencing.” [1].
References
[1] Ibn as-Sunnī (754) and al-Futūḥāt (3/177). Ibn Ḥajar states that this is a gharīb hadith, reported by Ibn as-Sunnī, Abū Aḥmad Ibn ‘Adī in al-Kāmil, and aṭ-Ṭabarānī in al-Kabīr. Ibn al-‘Adī states that ‘Amr ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Ḥarrānī is the only narrator of this hadith; his transmission is extremely weak, as he narrates reprehensible things (manākir) from trustworthy narrators which no-one else narrates.