Remembrance 11 from Chapter 60

Bismi-llāhi waḍa‘tu jambī, Allāhumma-ghfir lī dhambī, wa akhsi’ shayṭānī, wa fukka rihānī, wa-j‘alnī fī-n-Nadiyyi-l-A‘lā.

And we relate with a ḥasan isnād from the Sunan of Abū Dāwūd from Abū al-Azhārī, better known as Abū Zuhayr al-Anmārī , who reported that when the Messenger of Allah went to bed at night he used to say: “In the name of Allah do I lay down my side. O Allah, forgive me my sins, ward off from me my shayṭān, settle for me my debts, and enter me into the Loftiest Assembly.” The word an-nādiyyu has a fatḥah on the letter nūn, kasrah on the letter dāl, and shaddah on the letter yā. We relate in the Imam Abū Sulaymān Ḥamd ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Khaṭṭāb al-Khaṭṭābī (Allah have mercy on him) in his commentary on this hadith, who said that the word an-nādiyyu means ‘a gathering of people in a place’. This is similar to the word an-nadī, its plural being andiyah. He also said: “What is meant by the words an-nādiyyu-l-a‘lā is ‘the gathering of the angels’, ‘the highest assembly of the angels’. ^[16].

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