Sunan Abi Dawud 5052
What to say when going to sleep
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حَدَّثَنَا الْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَظِيمِ الْعَنْبَرِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا الأَحْوَصُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ جَوَّابٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَمَّارُ بْنُ رُزَيْقٍ عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنِ الْحَارِثِ وَأَبِي مَيْسَرَةَ عَنْ عَلِيٍّ رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ أَنَّهُ
كَانَ يَقُولُ عِنْدَ مَضْجَعِهِ اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِوَجْهِكَ الْكَرِيمِ وَكَلِمَاتِكَ التَّامَّةِ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا أَنْتَ آخِذٌ بِنَاصِيَتِهِ اللَّهُمَّ أَنْتَ تَكْشِفُ الْمَغْرَمَ وَالْمَأْثَمَ اللَّهُمَّ لاَ يُهْزَمُ جُنْدُكَ وَلاَ يُخْلَفُ وَعْدُكَ وَلاَ يَنْفَعُ ذَا الْجَدِّ مِنْكَ الْجَدُّ سُبْحَانَكَ وَبِحَمْدِكَ
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Chain of narrators
- al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-ʿAnbarī
- al-Aḥwaṣ / Ibn Jawwāb
- ʿAmmār b. Ruzayq
- Abū Isḥāq
- al-Ḥārith and ʾAbī Maysarah
- ʿAlī ؒ
- Rasūl Allāh ﷺ
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to say when he lay down: O Allah, I seek refuge in Thy noble Person and in Thy perfect Words from the evil of what Thou seizest by its forelock; O Allah! Thou removest debt and sin; O Allah! thy troop's not routed, Thy promise is not broken and the riches of the rich do not avail against Thee. Glory and praise be unto Thee!.
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Weak | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Strong Chainin تخريج سنن أبي داود, p. 5052Another source records this grader as “Daif” (fawazahmed0). | hadithunlocked |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Daif | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.
- Ibn Abī Ḥatim
هذا حديث خطأ رواه بعض الحفاظ عن أبي إسحاق عن أبي ميسرة عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم مرسل وهو الصحيح قال أبي رواه عمار بن رزيق عن أبي إسحاق عن أبي ميسرة والحارث عن علي عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ثم قال وحديث الأول أشبه لأن عمار بن رزيق سمع من أبي إسحاق بآخرة
machine translationThis ḥadīth is an error. Some of the memorizers (ḥuffāẓ) narrated it from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū Maysarah, from the Prophet ﷺ as a mursal report (mursal), and that is the sound (ṣaḥīḥ) version. My father said: ʿAmmār b. Ruzayq narrated it from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū Maysarah and al-Ḥārith, from ʿAlī, from the Prophet ﷺ. Then he said: The first ḥadīth is more likely correct, because ʿAmmār b. Ruzayq heard from Abū Isḥāq late (in his life).
in سنن أبي داود, p. 5036 - ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mudhirī
الحارث الأعور لا يحتج بحديثه
in سنن أبي داود, p. 5036
Same hadith, other wordings
- Misykatul Mashabih 2403وَعَنْ عَلِيٍّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ كَانَ يَقُولُ عِنْدَ مَضْجَعِهِ: «اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِوَجْهِكَ الْكَرِيمِ وَكَلِمَاتِكَ التَّامَّاتِ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا أَنْتَ آخِذٌ بناصيتهِ ا
Other narrations of this report
al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 6785al-Mu'jam al-Saghir 999al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 10563al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7704
Narrators
- One of the ten (promised Paradise)d. 40 AHعَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍأحد العشرةعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), devout worshipper, mukhaḍramd. 63 AH, or: 61 AH, or 62 AH, or 63 AHوَأَبِي مَيْسَرَةَثقة عابد مخضرمعن
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a prolific narrator (mukthir), devout (ʿābid); his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his lifed. Ibn ʿUyaynah said 126 AH, Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd said 127 AH, Abū Nuʿaym said 128 AH, ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said 129 AH, Ibn Maʿīn said 132 AHأَبِي إِسْحَاقَثقة مكثر عابد , اختلط بآخرهعن
- no harm in him (lā baʾs bih)d. 159 AHعَمَّارُ بْنُ رُزَيْقٍلا بأس بهنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), sometimes had lapses (wahm)d. 211 AHالْأَحْوَصُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ جَوَّابٍصدوق , ربما وهمنا
- Among the ḥuffāẓ of Basrad. 240 AH, or: 246 AHالْعَبَّاسُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْعَظِيمِ الْعَنْبَرِيُّمن حفاظ البصرةحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AHأَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)
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