al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 4031
✧ What to Say When Going to Bed
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قَالَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ: حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ فُضَيْلٍ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ قَالَ:
كُنْتُ عِنْدَ عَمَّارٍ ؓ فَأَتَاهُ رَجُلٌ فَقَالَ: أَلَا أُعَلِّمُكَ كَلِمَاتٍ ؟ كَأَنَّهُ يَرْفَعُهُنَّ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَقَالَ: « إِذَا أَخَذْتَ مَضْجَعَكَ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ فَقُلِ: اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْلَمْتُ نَفْسِي إِلَيْكَ، وَوَجَّهْتُ وَجْهِي إِلَيْكَ، وَفَوَّضْتُ أَمْرِي إِلَيْكَ، وَأَلْجَأْتُ ظَهْرِي إِلَيْكَ، آمَنْتُ بِكِتَابِكَ الْمُنَزَّلِ، وَبِنَبِيِّكَ الْمُرْسَلِ، اللَّهُمَّ نَفْسِي خَلَقْتَهَا، لَكَ مَحْيَاهَا وَلَكَ مَمَاتُهَا، إِنْ قَبَضْتَهَا فَارْحَمْهَا، وَإِنْ أَخَّرْتَهَا فَاحْفَظْهَا بِحِفْظِ الْإِيمَانِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- Abū Bakr
- Muḥammad b. Fuḍayl
- ʿAṭāʾ b. al-Sāʾib
- his father
✧ I was with 'Ammar ؓ when a man came to him and said: Shall I not teach you some words? It was as if he was raising them to the Prophet ﷺ. He said: "When you take your place of lying down at night, say: 'O Allah, I have submitted myself to You, and turned my face to You, and entrusted my affair to You, and leaned my back upon You, I believe in Your Book which You sent down and Your Prophet whom You sent. O Allah, my soul You have created; to You belongs its life and to You belongs its death. If You take it, have mercy on it, and if You delay it, guard it with the guarding of faith.'"
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- Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī
إسناده حسن وله شاهد في الصحيح من حديث البراء رضي الله عنه
in المطالب العالية, p. 4031 - Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
وفيه عطاء بن السائب وقد اختلط وبقية رجاله ثقات
in المطالب العالية, p. 4031
Other narrations of this report
Musnad Ahmad 18654Musnad Ahmad 18656Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 29912al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 10564al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 10570al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 10574
Narrators
- eminent, well-known Companion, among the earliest to embrace Islamd. 37 AHعَمَّار بْن يَاسِرصحابي جليل مشهور من السابقين الأولينصريح في السماع
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. between 91 AH and 100 AHأَبِيهِثقةعن
- Truthful (ṣadūq), became confused (ikhtalaṭa)d. 133 AH, or 134 AH, or 136 AH, or 137 AHعَطَاءِ بْنِ السَّائِبِصدوق اختلطعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), knowledgeable (ʿārif), accused of Shīʿism (tashayyuʿ)d. 194 AH, or 195 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ فُضَيْلٍصدوق عارف ، رمي بالتشيعحدثنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), author of works (ṣāḥib taṣānīf)d. 235 AH, or 234 AHأَبُو بَكْرٍثقة حافظ ، صاحب تصانيف
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