Chapter 20
Remembrance 2 from Chapter 20
What to say when entering and leaving the mosque
Arabic
Romanisation
Allāhumma-ftaḥ lī abwāba raḥmatik. Allāhumma innī as’aluka min faḍlik.
Context
We relate from Abū Ḥumayd, or Abū Usayd 
, that the Messenger of Allah 
said: “When any one of you enters the mosque, he should invoke blessings upon the Messenger and then say: O Allah, open for me the doors of Your Mercy. And when he leaves he should say: O Allah, I ask of You from Your bounty.” [1].Muslim relates this in his Ṣaḥīḥ. Abū Dāwūd, an-Nasā’ī, Ibn Mājah and others also relate it, with a ṣaḥīḥ isnād. In Muslim’s narration there is no sentence: ‘So, send greetings upon the Prophet ’, although it is in the narrations of the rest.
References
[1] Muslim (713), Abū Dāwūd (465), an-Nasā’ī (2/53), Ibn as-Sunnī (85), Ibn Mājah (772), al-Ḥākim (1/207), and an-Nasā’ī in ‘Amal al-yawm wa al-laylah (90).