Chapter 11
Remembrance 3 from Chapter 11
What to say when entering the lavatory
Arabic
Romanisation
Allāhumma innī a‘ūdhu bika mina-r-rijsi-n-najis, al-khabīthi-l-mukhbith, ash-Shayṭāni-r-rajīm.
Context
We relate from Ibn ‘Umar
that when the Messenger of Allah
entered the lavatory he used to say: “O Allah, I seek Your protection from the filthy, impure, wicked and malicious Shayṭān the rejected.” [4].Ibn as-Sunnī narrated it, as did aṭ-Ṭabarānī in Kitāb ad-du‘ā’.
References
[4] Ibn as-Sunnī (18), from Anas
. Ibn Ḥajar grades it as ḥasan gharīb.