Chapter 60
Remembrance 13 from Chapter 60
What to say when one intends to sleep and is lying in bed
Arabic
Romanisation
Astaghfiru-llāha-lladhī lā ilāha illā Huwa-l-Ḥayyu-l-Qayyūmu wa atūbu ilayh.
Context
And we relate from the book of at-Tirmidhī that Abū Sa‘īd al-Khudrī 
reported that the Messenger of Allah 
said: “If a person, when going to bed, says: I seek forgiveness of Allah, besides Whom there is no god, the Living, the Self-Subsisting, and I repent to Him, three times, Allah will forgive his sins even if they be as abundant as the foam of the sea, even if they be equal in number to the stars, even if they be as much as the sands of ‘Ālij, [22].even if they be equal in number to the days of the world.” [23].
References
[22] ‘Alīj is the name of a place where there is a lot of sand.
[23] At-Tirmidhī (3394), who states that it is ḥasan gharīb, al-Futūḥāt (3/160), and Natā ’ ij al-afkār (196). Ibn Ḥajar states that this hadith is gharīb ; al-Waṣṣāfī and his shaykh are both weak, but something similar is reported by ‘Iṣām ibn Qudāmah from ‘Aṭiyyah.