Chapter 60
Remembrance 3 from Chapter 60
What to say when one intends to sleep and is lying in bed
Arabic
Romanisation
Subḥāna-llāh, al-ḥamdu li-llāh, Allāhu akbar.
Context
And we relate from the Ṣaḥīḥs of al-Bukhārī and Muslim from ‘Alī
who said that the Messenger of Allah
told him and Fāṭimah: “When you retire to bed or go to sleep, say Allah is greater thirty-three times, Glory be to Allah thirty-three times, and Praise be to Allah thirty-three times.” According to another report he said: “And make tasbīḥ thirty-four times” and in another “And make takbīr thirty-four times.” ‘Alī
said: “I have never missed it since the time I heard it from the Messenger of Allah
.” “Not even on the night before the battle of Ṣiffīn?” he was asked. “Not even on the night of Ṣiffīn,” he replied. [3].
References
[3] Al-Bukhārī (6318), Muslim (2727), and Abū Dāwūd (2988).