Narrated Muadh ibn Anas: The Prophet ﷺ said: If anyone eats food and then says: "Praise be to Allah Who has fed me with this food and provided me with it through no might and power on my part, " he will be forgiven his former and later sins. If anyone puts on a garment and says: "Praise be to Allah Who has clothed me with this and provided me with it through no might and power on my part, " he will be forgiven his former and later sins.
Related hadith on this topic
Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi
Benefits and Issues:
➊
This hadith is of hasan (good) grade.
However, it does not contain the words “past sins.”
➋ Eating food or wearing clothes while reciting the above-mentioned or other Sunnah supplications is an extremely recommended (mustahabb) act. Through this, these blessings become full of barakah (blessing) for a person, and the servant is protected from their harm. In fact, he becomes deserving of further divine favors.
Because Allah the Exalted has said: “If you are grateful, I will surely increase you.”
Source: Sunan Abu Dawood – Commentary by Shaykh Umar Farooq Saeedi, Page: 4023
Shaykh Dr. Abdur Rahman Freywai
Explanation:
1:
All praise is due to Allah who has fed us this food and granted it to us,
without any effort, striving, or strength and power from my side.
Then his previous sins will be forgiven.
Note:
(In Sunan Abi Dawud:
"and what is to come" (wa ma ta’akhkhar) is mentioned at the end,
which is not correct.)
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhi – Majlis ‘Ilmi Dar al-Da‘wah, New Delhi Edition, Page: 3458
Maulana Ataullah Sajid
Benefits and Issues:
➊ Giving thanks to Allah for His blessings is a great virtue.
➋ Gratitude is a means for the forgiveness of sins.
➌ Although a person does make efforts and uses planning to obtain sustenance to a certain extent, making these efforts successful and granting the understanding for planning is also Allah’s grace and is only through His enabling.
Source: Commentary on Sunan Ibn Mājah by Mawlānā ‘Atā’ullāh Sājid, Page: 3285