Remembrance 1 from Chapter 4

Allāhumma laka-l-ḥamd, Anta kasawtanīh, as’aluka khayrahu wa khayra mā ṣuni‘a lah, wa a‘ūdhu bika min sharrihi wa sharri mā ṣuni‘a lah.

And we relate that Abū Sa‘īd al-Khudrī reported that whenever the Messenger of Allah put on new clothing he would mention its name—whether it was a turban, shirt or pair of trousers—and then say: “O Allah, to You belongs all praise. You have clothed me with this. I ask You for the good of it and the good for which it was created, and I seek Your protection from the evil of it and the evil of that for which it was created.” ^[1].The hadith is ṣaḥīḥ and was narrated by Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān ibn al-Ash‘ath as-Sijistānī, Abū ‘Īsā Muḥammad ibn ‘Īsā ibn Sawrah at-Tirmidhī, and Abū ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān Aḥmad ibn Shu‘ayb an-Nasā’ī in their Sunans. According to at-Tirmidhī this is a ḥasan hadith.

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