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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
  1. Abū Bakr
  2. Muḥammad b. Fuḍayl
  3. ʿAṭāʾ b. al-Sāʾib
  4. 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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