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What to say before sleeping

Dua 1 of 13Hisn al-Muslim 99Sleep and waking
How to say it
When retiring to his bed every night, the Prophet would hold his palms together, spit A form of spitting comprising mainly of air with little spittle in them, recite the last three chapters Al-Ikhlas, Al-Falaq, An-Nas of the Quran and then wipe over his entire body as much as possible with his hands, beginning with his head and face and then all parts of the body, he would do this three times.

يَجْمَعُ كَفَّيْهِ ثُمَّ يَنْفُثُ فِيهِمَا فَيَقْرَأُ فِيهِمَا: … ثُمَّ يَمْسَحُ بِهِمَا مَا اسْتَطَاعَ مِنْ جَسَدِهِ يَبْدَأُ بِهِمَا عَلَى رَأْسِهِ وَوَجْهِهِ وَمَا أَقبَلَ مِنْ جَسَدِهِ (يفعلُ ذلك ثلاثَ مرَّاتٍ)

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ﴿قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ * اللَّهُ الصَّمَدُ* لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدْ* وَلَمْ يَكُن لَّهُ كُفُواً أَحَدٌ﴾. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ﴿قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الْفَلَقِ* مِن شَرِّ مَا خَلَقَ* وَمِن شَرِّ غَاسِقٍ إِذَا وَقَبَ* وَمِن شَرِّ النَّفَّاثَاتِ فِي الْعُقَدِ* وَمِن شَرِّ حَاسِدٍ إِذَا حَسَدَ﴾. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ﴿قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ النَّاسِ* مَلِكِ النَّاسِ* إِلَهِ النَّاسِ* مِن شَرِّ الْوَسْوَاسِ الْخَنَّاسِ* الَّذِي يُوَسْوِسُ فِي صُدُورِ النَّاسِ* مِنَ الْجِنَّةِ وَ النَّاسِ﴾

Bismi llāh ar-raḥmān ar-raḥīm qul huwa llāhu aḥadun allāhu aṣ-ṣamadu lam yalid walam yūlad walam yakun llahu kufūan aḥadun bismi llāh ar-raḥmān ar-raḥīm qul aʿūdhu birabbi l-falaqi min sharri mā khalaqa wamin sharri ghāsiqin idhā waqaba wamin sharri an-naffāthāti fī l-ʿuqadi wamin sharri ḥāsidin idhā ḥasada bismi llāh ar-raḥmān ar-raḥīm qul aʿūdhu birabbi an-nāsi maliki an-nāsi ilāhi an-nāsi min sharri l-waswāsi l-khannāsi alladhī yuwaswisu fī ṣudūri an-nāsi mina l-jinnati wa an-nās

In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful. 112:1 Say: He is Allah, the One. 112:2 Allah, the One on whom all depend. 112:3 He neither begets nor was born. 112:4 Nothing is comparable to Him. In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful. 113:1 Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of daybreak, 113:2 from the evil of what He created, 113:3 from the evil of darkness when it settles, 113:4 from the evil of those who blow upon knots, 113:5 and from the evil of an envier when he envies. In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful. 114:1 Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of humankind, 114:2 the King of humankind, 114:3 the God of humankind, 114:4 from the evil of the retreating whisperer, 114:5 who whispers into people’s hearts, 114:6 whether from the jinn or humankind.

Recited by Muhammad Jumah
1:32

Duas are drawn from Hisn al-Muslim by Sa'id ibn Ali ibn Wahf al-Qahtani, through the OpenDua library built by Ihsan Labs at the Human Development Fund. OpenDua English, transliteration and dataset structure are licensed CC BY 4.0. Recitation by Muhammad Jumah for OpenDua. OpenDua makes no ownership claim over the underlying religious texts.

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