Reports on remembrances after the prayer

Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) married him to Sayyidah Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her), he gave her as her dowry a sheet, a leather pillow stuffed with palm fibre, two hand mills, a water-skin and two pitchers. One day Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said to Sayyidah Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her): "By Allah! I have drawn water until my chest has become painful, and Allah Almighty has given your father captives; go and ask him for a servant." Sayyidah Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "By Allah! I grind flour, and as a result the skin of my hands has become blistered." Then Sayyidah Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "O my daughter, what have you come for?" She said: "I have come to greet you with salam." She felt too shy to ask the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and she went back just like that. Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) asked: "What happened?" She replied: "I felt too shy to ask the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)." Then the two of them came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) together. Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O Messenger of Allah, I draw and carry water, and as a result I have pain in my chest." Sayyidah Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) said: "I grind flour, and as a result the skin of my hands has become blistered. Now Allah Almighty has granted you captives and ample means, so give us a servant." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "By Allah! It cannot be that I give to you and leave the People of the Suffah, whose stomachs are folded over from hunger; I do not find the means to spend on them. I will sell these slaves and spend their price on the People of the Suffah." The two of them went back. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came to their house; at that time the two of them had already lain down to sleep. Their blanket was such that if they covered their heads their feet were exposed, and if they covered their feet their heads were exposed. The two of them began to get up, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Stay where you are!" Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Shall I not tell you both of something that is better for you both than what you asked me for?" The two of them said: "Yes indeed!" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "They are some words which Jibril taught me." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "After every prayer, both of you recite 'Subhan Allah' (Glory be to Allah) ten times, 'Al-hamdu lillah' (All praise is for Allah) ten times and 'Allahu akbar' (Allah is the Greatest) ten times; and when you both lie down on your bed, recite 'Subhan Allah' 33 times, 'Al-hamdu lillah' 33 times and 'Allahu akbar' 34 times." Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) says: "Since I heard this from the blessed tongue of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), I have never given up reciting these words."
The narrator states: Ibn al-Kawwa' asked him: "Not even on the night of the Battle of Siffin?" Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O people of Iraq, may Allah Almighty destroy you! Yes, not even on the night of the Battle of Siffin (that is, I did not give up reciting them)."
(Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: Part of this narration is mentioned in the Sahih.
Ahmad recorded it; its chain contains Ata' bin al-Sa'ib, and Hammad bin Salamah heard from him before he suffered from confusion (ikhtilat); the rest of its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyidah Umm al-Darda' (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates: A man came and stayed with Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda' (may Allah be pleased with him). Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda' (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Will you be staying, so that we arrange for your stay, or are you a traveller, so that we arrange provisions for the journey?" He said: "Rather, I am a traveller." Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda' (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "I will give you provisions for the journey; had I found provisions more excellent than these, I would have given them to you." Then he related: Once I came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Messenger of Allah, the well-off have taken away the good of this world and the Hereafter. We pray and they also pray, we fast and they also fast, but they give charity and we are unable to give charity." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Shall I not guide you to something which, when you do it, no one before you will be able to surpass you and no one after you will be able to reach you, except a person who does the same deed as you have done? After every prayer, recite 'Subhan Allah' 33 times, 'Al-hamdu lillah' 33 times and 'Allahu akbar' 34 times."
Ahmad, al-Bazzar and al-Tabarani recorded it with various chains; the narrators of one of al-Tabarani's chains are the narrators of the Sahih.

It is reported about Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda' (may Allah be pleased with him): Once some people came to him and began conversing with him. Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda' (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "I will give you as provision for the journey what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave me as provision for the journey." He said: "When you pray, recite after every prayer 'Subhan Allah' 33 times, 'Al-hamdu lillah' 33 times and 'Allahu akbar' 34 times, and then recite: 'There is no god except Allah Almighty, He alone is the only one worthy of worship, He has no partner; the dominion belongs to Him alone, and praise belongs to Him alone, and He has power over all things.'"
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Mas'ud bin Sulayman, and he is majhul (unknown).

Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda' (may Allah be pleased with him) reports this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "We have been commanded with this glorification: that after the prayers 'Subhan Allah' be recited 33 times, 'Al-hamdu lillah' 33 times and 'Allahu akbar' 34 times."
Al-Tabarani recorded it with two chains, and the narrators of both are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever recites 'Subhan Allah' 33 times after every prayer, recites 'Al-hamdu lillah' 33 times, and recites 'Allahu akbar' 33 times, so that their number reaches 99, and then, to complete 100, recites: 'There is no god except Allah Almighty, He alone is the only one worthy of worship, He has no partner; the dominion belongs to Him alone, and praise belongs to Him alone, and He has power over all things' (the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) says:) then that person's sins will be forgiven, even if they are like the foam of the sea."
(Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say:
This narration is reported in the Sahih in abridged form.
Ahmad recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Abu Kathir, the freed slave of Banu Hashim, narrates that he heard Sayyiduna Abu Dharr al-Ghifari (may Allah be pleased with him), the Companion of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), say: There are some words which are recited 100 times after every prayer: 'Allahu akbar', 'Subhan Allah', 'Al-hamdu lillah' and this phrase: 'La ilaha illallahu wahdahu la sharika lah, wa la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah' (There is no god except Allah Almighty, He alone is the only one worthy of worship, He has no partner, and nothing can happen except with the help of Allah Almighty). If that person's sins were as much as the foam of the sea, these words would erase them.
Ahmad recorded it as a mawquf narration (stopping at the Companion); I do not know the narrator named Abu Kathir, and the hadith narrated by the rest of its narrators is hasan (good).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: Once the poor Muslims said to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that the well-off had been granted superiority over them. They said: "O Messenger of Allah, our brothers affirm the truth as we affirm it, they have believed as we have believed, they fast as we fast, but they have wealth from which they give charity, through which they maintain the ties of kinship, and which they spend in the way of Allah, whereas we are poor and do not have the ability to do so." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Shall I not tell you of something which, when you do it, you will reach the excellence that those people have? After every prayer, recite 'Allahu akbar' eleven times, recite 'Al-hamdu lillah' the same number of times, recite 'La ilaha illallah' the same number of times, and recite 'Subhan Allah' the same number of times; then you will reach the like of their excellence."
The narrator states: So those people did so. Then they mentioned this to the well-off, and the well-off also began to do this. The poor people came back to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), mentioned this situation to him and said: "These brothers of ours have also begun to recite just as we recite." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "That is the bounty of Allah Almighty; He grants it to whomever He wills. O company of the poor, shall I not give you glad tidings? The poor Muslims will enter Paradise half a day before the rich, and that (half day) will be 500 years."
Then the narrator Musa bin Ubaydah recited this verse: "And indeed a day with your Lord is like a thousand years of what you count." [Al-Hajj: 47]
Al-Bazzar recorded it, and its chain contains Musa bin Ubaydah al-Rabadhi, and he is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) saw Sayyidah Umm Sulaym (may Allah be pleased with her) praying in her house, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Umm Sulaym, when you have performed the obligatory prayer, recite 'Subhan Allah' ten times, 'Al-hamdu lillah' ten times and 'Allahu akbar' ten times, then ask whatever you wish; Allah Almighty will say to you: 'Yes! Yes! Yes!' (that is, I have accepted your supplication). He will say this three times."
Al-Bazzar recorded it, and Abu Ya'la recorded something similar, except that he recorded these words: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) performed a voluntary prayer in the house of Sayyidah Umm Sulaym (may Allah be pleased with her), then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Umm Sulaym." Its chain contains Abd al-Rahman bin Ishaq Abu Shaybah al-Wasiti, and he is da'if (weak).

It is reported about Sayyidah Umm Malik al-Ansariyyah (may Allah be pleased with her) that she came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) with a container of ghee. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered Sayyiduna Bilal (may Allah be pleased with him) to take the ghee out of it, then Sayyiduna Bilal (may Allah be pleased with him) returned the container to the woman. When the woman went back, she saw that the container was full of ghee. The woman came back to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: "O Messenger of Allah, has some command been revealed concerning me?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "O Umm Malik, what happened?" The woman said: "Why did you return my gift to me?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) called Sayyiduna Bilal (may Allah be pleased with him) and asked him about it, and he said: "By the One who sent you with the truth, I took out so much from that container that I began to feel ashamed." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O Umm Malik, congratulations to you! This is a blessing whose reward Allah Almighty has given you in advance." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) taught the woman to recite after every prayer 'Subhan Allah' ten times, 'Al-hamdu lillah' ten times and 'Allahu akbar' ten times.
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Ata' bin al-Sa'ib, who is thiqah (trustworthy) but suffered from confusion (ikhtilat), and its chain contains a narrator who is not named; the rest of its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Awn bin Abdullah bin Utbah narrates: A man prayed beside Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him), and when he concluded with salam, the man heard him say: 'Allahumma anta al-salam, wa minka al-salam, tabarakta ya dha al-jalali wa al-ikram' (O Allah, You are the Giver of peace, and peace comes from You; Blessed are You, O Possessor of Majesty and Honour).
Then once the man prayed beside Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both), and he heard him too say words like these after the salam. The man laughed. Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) asked him: "What made you laugh?" He said: "I prayed beside Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with him), and I heard him too recite words like these." Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: "The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to recite these (words)."
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Abdullah bin Abi al-Hudhayl narrates: The earlier people liked that when a person had performed the prayer, he should recite:
'Allahumma anta al-salam, wa minka al-salam, tabarakta ya dha al-jalali wa al-ikram'
(O Allah, You are the Giver of peace, and peace comes only from You; Blessed are You, O Possessor of Majesty and Honour).
Abu Ya'la recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever recites Ayat al-Kursi after every obligatory prayer, nothing will stand between him and entering Paradise except death."

In one narration the words are: "And 'Say: He is Allah, the One'" (that is, whoever recites Ayat al-Kursi and Surah al-Ikhlas after every prayer, nothing will stand between him and entering Paradise except death).
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir and al-Mu'jam al-Awsat with various chains, one of which is jayyid (good).

Sayyiduna Imam Hasan bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever recites Ayat al-Kursi after the obligatory prayer will be under the protection of Allah Almighty until the next prayer."
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its chain is hasan (good).

Sayyiduna Jabir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There are three things: whoever comes with them along with faith will enter Paradise through whichever of its gates he wishes, and will be married to whichever of the wide-eyed houris he wishes. (These three matters are:) that the person forgives his killer, pays off a hidden debt, and recites Surah al-Ikhlas ten times after every obligatory prayer." The narrator says: Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "O Messenger of Allah, and if he does just one of these things?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Even if he does just one of them (that is, he will still attain the same reward)."
Abu Ya'la recorded it; its chain contains Umar bin Nabhan, and he is matruk (abandoned).

Abdullah bin Arqam reports from his father this saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Whoever recites this three times after every prayer:
'Subhana rabbika rabbi al-'izzati 'amma yasifun, wa salamun 'ala al-mursalin, wa al-hamdu lillahi rabbi al-'alamin'
(Your Lord, the Lord of Might, is free of what they attribute (to Him), and peace be upon the Messengers, and all praise belongs to Allah Almighty, the Lord of all the worlds),
he obtains a full 'jarib' (a vessel for measuring grain) of reward."
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Abd al-Mun'im bin Bashir, and he is extremely weak (da'if jiddan).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: We used to know that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had finished his prayer by his reciting: 'Subhana rabbika rabbi al-'izzati 'amma yasifun, wa salamun 'ala al-mursalin, wa al-hamdu lillahi rabbi al-'alamin' (Your Lord, the Lord of Might, is free of what they attribute (to Him), and peace be upon the Messengers, and all praise belongs to Allah Almighty, the Lord of all the worlds).
Al-Tabarani recorded it; its chain contains Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Ubayd bin Umayr, and he is matruk (abandoned).

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever recites this after the prayer: 'Subhan Allahi al-'azimi wa bihamdihi, wa la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah' (Glory be to Allah Almighty, the Magnificent, free of every defect, and praise belongs to Him alone; nothing can happen except with the help of Allah Almighty)", the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) says: "when that person gets up, he has already been forgiven."
Al-Bazzar recorded it as the narration of Abu al-Zahra' from Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him); I do not know the narrator named Abu al-Zahra', and the rest of its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) had performed the prayer, he would recite: 'La ilaha illallahu wahdahu la sharika lah, lahu al-mulku wa lahu al-hamdu, yuhyi wa yumitu, wa huwa 'ala kulli shay'in qadir. Allahumma la mani'a lima a'tayta, wa la mu'tiya lima mana'ta, wa la yanfa'u dha al-jaddi minka al-jadd' (There is no god except Allah Almighty, He alone is the only one worthy of worship, He has no partner; the dominion belongs to Him alone, praise belongs to Him alone, He gives life and He gives death, and He has power over all things. O Allah, there is no one to withhold what You give, and no one to give what You withhold, and the effort of the one who strives is of no avail against You).
Al-Bazzar recorded it, and its chain is hasan (good).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates: When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) finished his prayer, he would recite:
'La ilaha illallahu wahdahu la sharika lah, lahu al-mulku wa lahu al-hamdu, biyadihi al-khayru, wa huwa 'ala kulli shay'in qadir. Allahumma la mani'a lima a'tayta, wa la mu'tiya lima mana'ta, wa la yanfa'u dha al-jaddi minka al-jadd'
(There is no god except Allah Almighty, He alone is the only one worthy of worship, He has no partner; the dominion belongs to Him alone, praise belongs to Him alone, all good is in His hand of power, and He has power over all things. O Allah, there is no one to withhold what You give, and no one to give what You withhold, and the effort of any who strives is of no avail against You).
Al-Bazzar recorded it, and al-Tabarani recorded something similar, except that he added these words: "He gives life and He gives death", and did not record these words: "All good of every kind is in His hand of power."
The chains of both are hasan (good).

Sayyiduna al-Mughirah bin Shu'bah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to recite after every prayer: 'La ilaha illallahu wahdahu la sharika lah, lahu al-mulku wa lahu al-hamdu, yuhyi wa yumitu wa huwa hayyun la yamut, biyadihi al-khayru, wa huwa 'ala kulli shay'in qadir'
(There is no god except Allah Almighty, He alone is the only one worthy of worship, He has no partner; the dominion belongs to Him alone, praise belongs to Him alone, He gives life and He gives death, and He is Ever-Living and death will not come to Him; all good of every kind is in His hand of power, and He has power over all things).
(Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: This narration is reported in the Sahih in abridged form.
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Makhul narrates: I heard Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah (may Allah be pleased with him) say on the pulpit: When the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) finished his prayer, he (peace and blessings be upon him) would recite: 'La ilaha illallahu wahdahu la sharika lah, lahu al-mulku wa lahu al-hamdu, wa huwa 'ala kulli shay'in qadir. Allahumma la mani'a lima a'tayta, wa la mu'tiya lima mana'ta, wa la yanfa'u dha al-jaddi minka al-jadd'
(There is no god except Allah Almighty, He alone is the only one worthy of worship, He has no partner; the dominion belongs to Him alone and praise belongs to Him alone, and He has power over all things. O Allah, there is no one to withhold what You give, and no one to give what You withhold, and the effort of the one who strives is of no avail against You).
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its chain contains Abd al-Aziz bin Ubaydullah, and he is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Abu Ayyub al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There are ten phrases; whoever recites them after performing the prayer: 'La ilaha illallahu wahdahu la sharika lah, lahu al-mulku wa lahu al-hamdu, wa huwa 'ala kulli shay'in qadir' (There is no god except Allah Almighty, He alone is the only one worthy of worship, He has no partner; the dominion belongs to Him alone and praise belongs to Him alone, and He has power over all things)", the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) says: "then because of these words Allah Almighty records ten good deeds for him, and because of them He erases ten of that person's sins, and because of these words He raises that person ten ranks; these words are equal for that person to the reward of freeing ten slaves, and these words become a protection for that person from Satan until the evening; and whoever recites these words in the evening will receive the same reward until the morning."
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).