The supplication recommended in the morning

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Sayyiduna Abu Bakr al-Siddiq (may Allah be pleased with him) said to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Tell me something that I may say in the morning and in the evening." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Say: 'O Allah, Knower of the unseen and the seen, Creator of the heavens and the earth, Lord and Sovereign of everything, I bear witness that there is no one worthy of worship except You. I seek refuge with You from the evil of my own self, and from the evil of Satan and of his shirk.' Recite this supplication in the morning and in the evening and when lying down on your bed."

Sayyiduna Uthman (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I indeed heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Whoever recites this supplication three times in the morning and evening: 'I begin with the name of Allah, with whose name nothing in the heavens or the earth can cause harm, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing,' no harm will reach him during that day and night."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) said: When evening came, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would make this supplication: "We have reached the evening and the dominion of Allah has reached the evening, and all praise is for Allah Almighty. There is no one worthy of worship except Allah, who is alone and has no partner. O Allah, I ask You for the good of this night and the good that is in it, and I seek refuge with You from the evil of this night and the evil that is in it. O Allah, I seek refuge with You from laziness, from old age, from the evil of old age, from the trial of this world, and from the punishment of the grave."

And al-Hasan bin Ubaydullah said: Zubayd also narrated, as a marfu' report, the addition of these words: "There is no one worthy of worship except Allah, who is alone and has no partner. His is the dominion, for Him is the praise, and He has power over all things."

Sayyiduna Abd al-Rahman bin Abza (may Allah be pleased with him) said: When morning came, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would make this supplication: "We have reached the morning upon the natural disposition of Islam, upon the word of sincerity, upon the religion of our Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), and upon the upright religion of our father Ibrahim, and he was not of the polytheists."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abi Awfa (may Allah be pleased with him) said: When morning came, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) would supplicate like this: "We have reached the morning and the dominion of Allah has reached the morning, and the majesty and greatness of Allah, and creation and command, and day and night, and all that takes place in them, for Allah who is alone and has no partner. O Allah, make the first part of this day righteous, its middle part a success and its last part a triumph. I ask You for the good of this world, O Most Merciful of all who show mercy."

Jubayr bin Abi Sulayman said: I was sitting with Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) and he said: I used to hear the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) make this supplication morning and evening. He (peace and blessings be upon him) did not abandon this supplication until he left this world, or he said: until he passed away: "O Allah, I ask You for well-being in this world and the Hereafter. O Allah, I ask You for pardon and well-being in my religion, my worldly life, my family and my wealth. O Allah, conceal my faults, and replace my alarm with security and tranquillity. O Allah, protect me from in front of me, from behind me, from my right, from my left and from above me, and I seek refuge in Your greatness from being suddenly destroyed from beneath me."

Jubayr said: This means being swallowed by the earth, and I do not know whether this is what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) meant or what Jubayr meant.

The like of the preceding statement of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) is also reported through this chain from Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both).

Muhammad bin al-Munkadir said: I have been told that when morning came, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say: O Allah, with Your name we enter the morning, with Your name we live, with Your name we shall die, and to You is the return. And when evening came, he would supplicate thus: O Allah, with Your name we enter the evening, with Your name we live, with Your name we shall die, and to You is the final abode.

Sayyiduna Abu Sallam (may Allah be pleased with him), who was the servant of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stated: There is no Muslim, or human being, or servant who recites this supplication three times, morning and evening: I am pleased with Allah as Lord, with Islam as religion, and with Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) as Prophet, except that it is this servant's right upon Allah Almighty that He will please him on the Day of Resurrection.

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stated: Whoever says: I am pleased with Allah as Lord, with Islam as religion, and with Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) as Messenger, Paradise becomes obligatory for him.

Ata bin Yasar said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stated: Whoever says in the evening: I am pleased with Allah as Lord, with Islam as religion, and with Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) as Messenger, has indeed attained the reality of faith.

Mis'ar said that Bukayr bin al-Akhnas stated: Whoever recites this supplication three times, morning and evening: O Allah, I have entered the evening, I bear witness; and in the morning he says: O Allah, I have entered the morning, I bear witness, that indeed whatever well-being and blessing any of us has today is from You alone; no one is Your partner in granting this blessing and well-being, so to You alone belongs all praise. Such a man will not be questioned about any blessing he has in that night and that day, except that this servant will already have given thanks for that blessing.

Abdullah bin Ubayd said that Ubayd bin Umayr used to make this supplication in the morning and evening: O Allah, I ask You, at the time when the prayers are present and when Your callers stand, that You forgive me and have mercy on me.

Abdullah bin Sakhbarah said that Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) used to make this supplication in the morning or evening: O Allah, make me, by day or by night, the best and most excellent of Your servants, granting me a share of the good that You distribute, of the light by which You guide, of the mercy that You spread, of the provision that You expand, of the hardship that You remove, of the trial that You lift, of the evil that You repel, and of the tribulation that You turn away.

Amr bin Murrah said: I asked Sa'id bin al-Musayyib: Which supplication do you people make in the morning and evening? He replied: We supplicate thus: I seek refuge in the Being of Allah, Who is most generous, in the name of Allah, Who is most magnificent, and in the complete word of Allah, from the evil of death and the evil eye; O my Lord, from the evil of that of which I am unaware, from the evil of that whose forelock You hold, from the evil of this day, from the evil of what comes after this day, and from the evil of this world and the Hereafter.

Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) stated: Whoever says these words in the morning and in the evening: O Allah, You are my Sustainer, You have no partner; we have entered the morning, and the dominion and kingdom of Allah has entered the morning, Who has no partner, then the sins he committed between these two times are forgiven.

Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) stated: Whoever says these words in the morning: O Allah, You are my Sustainer, You have no partner, these words will become an expiation for the deeds he committed between morning and evening.

Musa al-Juhani reports, through a certain man, the statement of Sa'id bin Jubayr: Whoever recites this verse three times: Glory be to Allah when you reach the evening and when you reach the morning, when he has recited this verse, he will attain a reward equal to whatever deed he missed in the night that has passed; and if he says these words at night, he will attain a reward equal to whatever deed he missed in the day that has passed.

Sayyiduna Abu Ayyash al-Zuraqi (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stated: Whoever says these words in the morning: There is no god but Allah, alone, Who has no partner; His is the dominion and for Him is the praise, and He has power over all things, this person will receive the reward of freeing a slave from the descendants of Ismail, ten good deeds will be written for him because of this act, ten of his sins will be erased, he will be raised ten ranks, and he will remain protected from Satan until evening. And when he says these words in the evening, he will obtain these same benefits until morning.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that when morning came, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say these words: O Allah, through You we have entered the morning and through You we have entered the evening; because of You we live, by Your command we shall die, and to You is the return.

Abdullah bin Ubayd bin Umayr said that a man from among the Companions of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) (may Allah be pleased with him) stated: Whoever recites these words ten times in the morning: There is no god but Allah, alone, Who has no partner; His is the dominion and for Him is the praise, in His control is all good, and He has power over all things, then ten ranks are raised for him, ten of his evil deeds are erased, and that person becomes free of hypocrisy that day until evening. And if he says these words in the evening, he will receive the same reward and will be free of hypocrisy until morning.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said that Ka'b stated: I found it written in the Torah that whoever says these words in the morning: O Allah, with Your name and with Your perfect words I seek refuge from the accursed Satan; O Allah, with Your name and with Your perfect words I seek refuge from Your punishment and from the evil of Your servants; O Allah, with Your name and with Your perfect words I ask You for every good that can be asked of You, every good that You grant, every good that You reveal, and every good that You conceal; O Allah, I seek refuge in You, with Your name and with Your perfect words, from every evil that appears in the day. Then the devils will not come near this person, nor will anything seem disagreeable to him. And when he says these words in the evening, he will obtain these same benefits as well, except that in place of the last sentence he should say: and from the evil of everything that the night has concealed.