al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 52
✧ Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Yahya al-Dimashqi
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حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى بْنِ حَمْزَةَ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ ثَوْرِ بْنِ يَزِيدَ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ قَيْسٍ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ عَنِ الْبَرَاءِ بْنِ عَازِبٍ
أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ عَلَّمَ رَجُلًا أَنْ يَقُولَ إِذَا أَخَذَ مَضْجَعَهُ: اللَّهُمَّ وَجَّهْتُ وَجْهِي إِلَيْكَ، وَأَلْجَأْتُ ظَهْرِي إِلَيْكَ، وَفَوَّضْتُ أَمْرِي إِلَيْكَ، وَأَسْلَمْتُ نَفْسِي إِلَيْكَ، رَهْبَةً وَرَغْبَةً إِلَيْكَ، لَا مَلْجَأَ وَلَا مَنْجَا مِنْكَ إِلَّا إِلَيْكَ، آمَنْتُ بِكِتَابِكَ الَّذِي أَنْزَلْتَ، وَبِنَبِيِّكَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلْتَ. فَإِنْ مَاتَ مِنْ لَيْلَتِهِ، غُفِرَ لَهُ
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Chain of narrators
- Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá b. Ḥamzah
- my father
- his father
- Thawr b. Yazīd
- ʿAmr b. Qays
- Abū Isḥāq
- al-Barāʾ b. ʿĀzib
✧ The Prophet ﷺ taught a man to say when he went to bed: 'O Allah, I turn my face to You, and I entrust my back to You, and I commit my affair to You, and I submit myself to You, in fear and hope of You. There is no refuge or escape from You except to You. I believe in Your Book which You have revealed, and in Your Prophet whom You have sent.' If he dies that night, he will be forgiven.
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- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. 72 AH, also said 71 AHالْبَرَاء بْن عَازِب الْأَوْسِيّصحابيعن
- 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
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. Ayyūb b. Manṣūr and Sulaymān b. Salamah al-Khabāʾirī said, and Abū Bakr al-Baghdādī, and Ibn Ḥibbān: the year 140 AH. Al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: died in Abū Jaʿfar's caliphate, at its beginning. Al-Wāqidī said, and Abū ʿUbayd: died in the year 125 AHعَمْرِو بْنِ قَيْسٍثقةعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), firm (thabt), except that he held the Qadarī viewd. al-Tirmidhī said: 150 AH. From al-Haytham b. ʿAdī: 151 AH. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā said: I was informed that he died in the year 152 AH. Ibn Saʿd and a group said: 153 AH. Yaḥyā b. Bukayr and others said: 155 AHثَوْرِ بْنِ يَزِيدَثقة ثبت ، إلا أنه يرى القدرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), accused of Qadarism (qadar)d. 180 AH, or 183 AH, also said: 182 AH, also said: 185 AHأَبِيهِثقة ، رمي بالقدرعن
- أَبِيحدثني
- d. 289 AHأَحْمَدُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى بْنِ حَمْزَةَحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.