Hadith 338:
Abu Hurairah (رضي الله عنه) said that the Prophet ﷺ said:
Whoever reads while on his bed (before sleeping)-
لا إلَهَ إلّا اللَّهُ وحدَهُ لا شَريكَ لَهُ، لَهُ الملكُ ولَهُ الحمدُ وَهوَ على كلِّ شيءٍ قديرٌ، لا حَولَ ولا قوَّةَ إلّا باللَّهِ العلِيِّ العظيمِ سُبحانَ اللَّهِ والحمدُ للَّهِ ولا إلَهَ إلّا اللَّهُ واللَّهُ أَكْبرُ
-then his sins or mistakes are forgiven, even if they’re (so much so) like the foam on the sea.
(Sahih Ibn Hibban 5503.)
Hadith 339:
Anas bin Malik narrated that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
Whoever reads while on his bed (before sleeping):
الحمدُ لله الذي كفاني، وآواني،
والحمدُ لله الذي أطعمَني وسقاني، والحمدُ لله الذي منَّ عليَّ فأفْضلَ
All Praises And Thanks be to Allah who has sufficed me, and gave me a good place to rest (stay). And All Praises And Thanks be to Allah who has fed me and quenched my thirst. And All Praises And Thanks be to Allah who has granted me Fadeelah (betterment).
Then indeed this person has praised Allah with the praise of all the creations which praise Allah.
(Al-Bayhaqi in Ash-Shuayb 4382, Hasan.)
Hadith 340
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) deputed me to keep Sadaqat (al-Fitr) of Ramadan. A comer came and started taking handfuls of the foodstuff (of the Sadaqa) (stealthily). I took hold of him and said, “By Allah, I will take you to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) .” He said, “I am needy and have many dependents, and I am in great need.” I released him, and in the morning Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) asked me, “What did your prisoner do yesterday?” I said, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! The person complained of being needy and of having many dependents, so, I pitied him and let him go.” Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “Indeed, he told you a lie and he will be coming again.” I believed that he would show up again as Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) had told me that he would return. So, I waited for him watchfully. When he (showed up and) started stealing handfuls of foodstuff, I caught hold of him again and said, “I will definitely take you to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ). He said, “Leave me, for I am very needy and have many dependents. I promise I will not come back again.” I pitied him and let him go.
In the morning Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) asked me, “What did your prisoner do.” I replied, “O Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ)! He complained of his great need and of too many dependents, so I took pity on him and set him free.” Allah’s Apostle said, “Verily, he told you a lie and he will return.” I waited for him attentively for the third time, and when he (came and) started stealing handfuls of the foodstuff, I caught hold of him and said, “I will surely take you to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) as it is the third time you promise not to return, yet you break your promise and come.” He said, “(Forgive me and) I will teach you some words with which Allah will benefit you.” I asked, “What are they?” He replied, “Whenever you go to bed, recite “Ayat-al-Kursi”– ‘Allahu la ilaha illa huwa-l-Haiy-ul Qaiyum’ till you finish the whole verse. (If you do so), Allah will appoint a guard for you who will stay with you and no satan will come near you till morning. ” So, I released him. In the morning, Allah’s Apostle asked, “What did your prisoner do yesterday?” I replied, “He claimed that he would teach me some words by which Allah will benefit me, so I let him go.” Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) asked, “What are they?” I replied, “He said to me, ‘Whenever you go to bed, recite Ayat-al-Kursi from the beginning to the end —- Allahu la ilaha illa huwa-lHaiy-ul-Qaiyum—-.’ He further said to me, ‘(If you do so), Allah will appoint a guard for you who will stay with you, and no satan will come near you till morning.’ (Abu Huraira or another sub-narrator) added that they (the companions) were very keen to do good deeds. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “He really spoke the truth, although he is an absolute liar. Do you know whom you were talking to, these three nights, O Abu Huraira?” Abu Huraira said, “No.” He said, “It was Satan.”
[Sahih al-Bukhari 2311, Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 2424] – (Graded Sahih)
An Encouragement To Recite This Dua If You Wake Up At Any Part of the Night
Hadith 341
Narrated ‘Ubada bin As-Samit:
The Prophet (ﷺ) “Whoever gets up at night and says: — ‘La ilaha il-lallah Wahdahu la Sharika lahu Lahu-lmulk, waLahu-l-hamd wahuwa ‘ala kullishai’in Qadir. Al hamdu lil-lahi wa subhanal-lahi wa la-ilaha il-lal-lah wa-l-lahu akbar wa la hawla Wala Quwata il-la-bil-lah.’
(None has the right to be worshipped but Allah. He is the Only One and has no partners . For Him is the Kingdom and all the praises are due for Him. He is Omnipotent. All the praises are for Allah. All the glories are for Allah. And none has the right to be worshipped but Allah, And Allah is Great And there is neither Might nor Power Except with Allah).
And then says: — Allahumma, Ighfir li (O Allah! Forgive me). Or invokes (Allah), he will be responded to and if he performs ablution (and prays), his prayer will be accepted.”
[Sahih al-Bukhari 1154, Sunan Abi Dawud 5060, Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3414 ] – (Graded Sahih)
An Encouragement To Pray Tahajjud
Hadith 342:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “Satan puts three knots at the back of the head of any of you if he is asleep. On every knot he reads and exhales the following words, ‘The night is long, so stay asleep.’ When one wakes up and remembers Allah, one knot is undone; and when one performs ablution, the second knot is undone, and when one prays the third knot is undone and one gets up energetic with a good heart in the morning; otherwise one gets up lazy and with a mischievous heart.”
[Sahih al-Bukhari 1142, Sahih Muslim 776, Sunan Abi Dawud 1306, Sunan an-Nasa’i 1607, Sunan Ibn Majah 1329, Malik 176/1] – (Graded Sahih)
Hadith 343:
Abdullah bin Salam said:
“When the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) arrived- meaning in Al-Madinah – the people came out to meet him. It was said that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) had arrived, so I went among the people to get a look at him. When I gazed upon the face of the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w), I knew that this face was not the face of a liar. The first thing that he spoke about was that he said: ‘O you people! Spread the Salam, feed(others), [maintain the ties of kinship] and perform Salat while the people are sleeping; you will enter Paradise with(the greeting of) Salam.’”
(Sunan At-Tirmidhi 2885, Sunan Ibn Majah 3251, Mustadrak Al-Hakim 3/13.)
Hadith 344:
Abdullah bin Amr (رضي الله عنهما) said that the Prophet ﷺ said:
In the Jannah there is a room, whose insides can be seen from the outside, and whose exterior can be seen from the interior. So Abu Malik Al-Ashari said: For whom is that O Messenger of Allah? The Prophet ﷺ said: (It is) For the one who has a good speech (Taab-Al-Kalaam), the one who feeds people and who stands up in prayer when people are asleep.
(Mustadrak Al-Hakim 1200, Hasan, Sahih.)
Hadith 345:
Narrated Al-Mughira:
The Prophet (ﷺ) used to stand (in the prayer) or pray till both his feet or legs swelled. He was asked why (he offered such an unbearable prayer) and he said, “should I not be a thankful slave.”
[Sahih al-Bukhari 1130] – (Graded Sahih)
Hadith 346:
Jabir said he heard Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) say:
There is an hour during the night in which no Muslim individual will ask Allah for good in this world and the next without His giving it to him; and that applies to every night.
[Sahih Muslim 757] – (Graded Sahih)
Hadith 347:
Abu Umamah Al-Bahili narrated that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: Upon you is (to hold onto) the Qiyam ul Layl, for it was the practice of the pious before you, and (a means towards) closeness towards your Rabb, an expiator of sins, and that which stops from sins [and a barrier for the body against disease].
(Sahih Ibn Khuzaimah 1135, Mustadrak Al-Hakim 1/308. The wordings in the brackets is from Sunan At-Tirmidhi 3549, Hasan Li Ghairihi. (Sh.Al-Albani has weakened this narration in At-Tirmidhi and that is what is closer to the truth))
Hadith 348:
Narrated Abu Sa’id and Abu Hurayrah:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If a man awakens his wife at night, and then both pray or both offer two rak’ahs together, the (name of the )man will be recorded among those who mention the name of Allah, and the (name of the) woman will be recorded among those who mention the name of Allah. Ibn Kathir did not narrate this tradition as a statement of the Prophet (ﷺ), but he reported it as a statement of Abu Sa’id.
Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been narrated by Ibn Mahdi from Sufyan and I think he mentioned the name of Sufyan. He also said: The tradition transmitted by Sufyan is a statement of the Companion (and not that of the Prophet).
[Sunan Abi Dawud 1309] – (Graded Sahih)
Hadith 349:
Sahl bin Sa’d said, Jibreel came to the Prophet ﷺ and said: O Muhammad! Live as you wish for you will die, act (perform deeds) as you wish for you will be rewarded (accounted) for it, love whmosoever you wish for you will be separated from them, and know that the honour (Sharf) of a believer is in Qiyam ul Layl, and his glory (Izzah) is in his being free from the people (i.e. not being dependant on people- Istighna).
(Mustadrak Al-Hakim 4/360, Hasan Li Ghairihi.)
Hadith 350:
Abu Umamah [may Allah be pleased with him] said:
`Amr bin `Abasah reported to me that he heard the Prophet (ﷺ) say: “The closest that the Lord is to a worshipper is during the last part of the night, so if you are able to be of those who remember Allah in that hour, then do so.”
[Jami` at-Tirmidhi 3579, Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 1147] – (Graded Sahih)
Hadith 351:
Abu Ad-Darda said that the Prophet ﷺ said: Three people are such that Allah loves them, and He Smiles at them, and Gives glad tidings about them-
(1) The one who remains fighting on the battlefield alone, after his companions have fled, only for the sake of Allah, so either he gets killed, or Allah makes him victorious and suffices for him. Allah says (at this): Look at this slave of mine how he displays patience within himself for My Sake?!
(2) And the one who has a beautiful wife and a soft bed, and he stands up at night (for prayers). Allah says (at this): He forgot his desires (Shahwah) and remembered me, even though he could rest (sleep).
(3) And the one who was travelling with a caravan, and stayed up (awake) at night, then finally slept, then stood (in prayers) in the last part of the night, (whether) in difficulty and ease.
(Mustadrak Al-Hakim 1/77, Hasan.)
Hadith 352:
‘Uqbah bin ‘Aamir said that he heard the Prophet ﷺ say: A man from my Ummah stands from (a part of the) night, and cures (struggles and purifies) his soul towards purification, and upon him is a knot. So if he washes his hands one of his knots is undone, and if he washes his face another one of his knots is undone, and when he wipes over his head another one of his knots is undone, and if he washes his legs another knot is undone.
Then Allah says to those who are behind the Hijab (i.e. Angels who are hidden): Look at my slave how he is curing his soul (with a great struggle), and whatever my slave asks give him.
(Sahih Ibn Hibban 2545, Hasan Li Ghairihi.)
Hadith 353:
Salim narrated on the authority of his father (Ibn ‘Umar) that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
Envy is not justified but in case of two persons only: one who, having been given (knowledge of) the Qur’an by Allah, recites it during the night and day (and also acts upon it) and a man who, having been given wealth by God, spends it during the night and the day (for the welfare of others. seeking the pleasure of the Lord).
[Sahih Muslim 815, Sahih Muslim 816] – (Graded Sahih)
Hadith 354:
Fadalah bin ‘Ubaid and Tameem Ad-Dari narrtated on the authority of the Prophet ﷺ that he said:
Whoever recites ten verses at night, a Qintar (of rewards) will be written for him, and that Qintar is better than the world and what is there in it.
And when on the Day of Judgement, it is said to him by your Lord Azza wa Jall: Read and raise for every Ayah a rank, till he ends at the last Ayah he has.
Allah Azza wa Jall says to His servant (‘Abd): Hold on (with your hand). The servant will hold out his hand and say: O Lord! You are The One Who Knows More (What should I hold onto?). It will be said to the servant: To this Al-Khuld (permanent abode), and to this An-Naeem (the happiness, the comfort).
(At-Tabarani in Al-Awsat 8451, Hasan.)
[And it was said that a qintaar is a bull’s hide full of gold, or eighty thousand, or a large but unspecified amount of wealth. See al-Nihaayah fi Ghareeb il-Hadeeth by Ibn al-Atheer. (Islamqa.com|50070)
Hadith 355:
Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-‘As:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone prays at night reciting regularly ten verses, he will not be recorded among the negligent; if anyone prays at night and recites a hundred verses, he will be recorded among those who are obedient to Allah; and if anyone prays at night reciting one thousand verses, he will be recorded among those who receive huge rewards.
Abu Dawud said: The name of Ibn Hujairah al-Asghar is ‘Abd Allah b. ‘Abd al-Rahman b. Hujairah.
[Sunan Abi Dawud 1398, Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah 1144] – (Graded Sahih,Hassan)
A Prohibition of Reciting The Quran And Praying When Being Overwhelmed By Drowsiness and An Urge To Sleep.
Hadith 356
Narrated `Aisha:
Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “If anyone of you feels drowsy while praying, he should go to bed (sleep) till his slumber is over because in praying while drowsy one does not know whether one is asking for forgiveness or for a bad thing for oneself.”
[Sahih al-Bukhari 212, Sahih Muslim 786, Sunan Abi Dawud 1310, Jami` at-Tirmidhi 355, Sunan Ibn Majah 1370, Malik 118/1] – (Graded Sahih)
Hadith 357:
Narrated Anas:
The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “If anyone of you feels drowsy while praying, he should sleep till he understands what he is saying (reciting).
[Sahih al-Bukhari 213, Sunan an-Nasa’i 443] – (Graded Sahih)
Hadith 358:
Abu Huraira reported Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:
When any one of you gets up at night (for prayer) and his tongue falters in (the recitation) of the Qar’an, and he does not know what he is reciting, he should go to sleep.
[Sahih Muslim 787, Sunan Abi Dawud 1311, Sunan Ibn Majah 1372] – (Graded Sahih)
An Admonishment Against Sleeping In The Morning And Not Standing In Qiyam At Night
Hadith 359:
‘Abdullah (b. Mas’ud) reported that a mention was made of a man who slept the whole night till morning. He (the Holy Prophet) remarked:
That is a man in whose ears (or in whose ear) the devil urinated.
[Sahih Muslim 774, Sahih al-Bukhari 1144, Sunan an-Nasa’i 1608, Sunan Ibn Majah 1130] – (Graded Sahih)
Hadith 360:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “Satan puts three knots at the back of the head of any of you if he is asleep. On every knot he reads and exhales the following words, ‘The night is long, so stay asleep.’ When one wakes up and remembers Allah, one knot is undone; and when one performs ablution, the second knot is undone, and when one prays the third knot is undone and one gets up energetic with a good heart in the morning; otherwise one gets up lazy and with a mischievous heart.”
[Sahih al-Bukhari 1142, Sahih Muslim 776, Sunan an-Nasa’i 1607] – (Graded Sahih)
Hadith 361:
Jabir said that the Prophet ﷺ said: There is none from the Muslims, male or female, that he sleeps and that Shaitan ties on him knots. And if he does Wudhu and stands for Salah, he wakes up active and achieves Khair. And all his knots are undone.
And if he wakes up and doesn’t mention Allah, he wakes up with the knots upon him, and he wakes up heavy and lazy, and he doesn’t achieve Khair.
(Sahih Ibn Khuzaimah 1133, Sahih.)
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