Remembrance 4 from Chapter 60

Bismika Rabbī waḍa‘tu jambī wa bika arfa‘uh, in amsakta nafsī fa-rḥamhā, wa in arsaltahā fa-ḥfaẓhā bimā taḥfaẓu bihi-ṣ-ṣāliḥīn.

And we relate from the Ṣaḥīḥs of al-Bukhārī and Muslim, from Abū Hurayrah, who reported that the Messenger of Allah said: “When any of you retires to bed, he should dust his bed off with the corner of his trousers, because he does not know what came [to it] after him. Then he should say: In Your name, my Lord, I lay down my side and by You I raise it again. If You take my soul, then have mercy on it; and if You release it, protect it by that with which You protect Your righteous slaves.” ^[4].

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