Chapter 60
Remembrance 18 from Chapter 60
What to say when one intends to sleep and is lying in bed
Arabic
Romanisation
Allāhumma amti‘nī bi-sam‘ī wa baṣarī, wa-j‘alhumā’l-wāritha minnī, wa-nṣurnī ‘alā ‘aduwwī, wa arinī minhu tha’rī, Allāhumma innī a‘ūdhu bika min ghalabati-d-dayn, wa mina-l-jū‘, fa-innahu bi’sa-ḍ-ḍajī‘.
Context
And we narrate from ‘Ā’ishah 
who reported that when the Messenger of Allah 
went to bed he said: “O Allah, let me enjoy my hearing and my sight and make them inherit from me. Help me against my enemy and show me how to avenge myself against him. O Allah, I seek Your protection from crippling debt, and from hunger, for it is the most evil companion.” [31].
References
[31] Ibn as-Sunnī (739) and Natā ’ ij al-afkār (199). Ibn Ḥajar states that this hadith was reported by Ibn as-Sunnī from Abū ’l-Miqdām Hishām ibn Ziyād, who narrated it from Hishām ibn ‘Urwah, who narrated it from his father, who narrated it from her. There is consensus about the weakness of Abū ’l-Miqdām’s transmission.