Sending Salat Upon The Prophet (ﷺ) After The Tashah-hud

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Ka’b b. ‘Ujrah said:

We said or the people said: Messenger of Allah, you have commanded us to invoke blessing on you and to salute you. As regards salutation we have already learnt it. How should we invoke blessing? He said: Say: “O Allah, bless Muhammad and Muhammad’s family as You didst bless Abraham and Abraham’s family. O Allah, grant favours to Muhammad and Muhammad’s family as You didst grant favours to Abraham; You are indeed praiseworthy and glorious.

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This tradition has also been reported by Shu’bah through a different chain of narrators. This version adds:

Bless Muhammad and Muhammad’s family as You didst bless Abraham.

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This has been transmitted by al-Hakam through a different chain of narrators. This version has:

O Allah, bless Muhammad and Muhammad’s family as didst bless Abraham. You are indeed praiseworthy and glorious. O Allah grant favours of Muhammad and Muhammad’s family as You didst grant favour to Abraham’s family. You are indeed praiseworthy and glorious. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has been narrated by al-Zubair b. ‘Adi as narrated by Mis’ar , except that his version goes: As You didst bless Abraham’s family. You are indeed praiseworthy and glorious. And grant favours to Muhammad. He then narrated the tradition in full.

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Abu Humaid al-Said said:

Some people asked: Messenger of Allah, how should we invoke blessings on you? He said: Say,” O Allah, bless Muhammad, his wives and his off springs, as You didst bless Abraham’s family, and grant favours to Muhammad’s family, his wives and off springs, as You didst grant favours to Abraham’s family. You are indeed praiseworthy and glorious.

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Abu Mas’ud al-Ansari said:

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to us in a meeting of Sa’d b. ‘Ubadah. Bashir b. Sa’d said to him: Allah has commanded us to invoke blessings on you, Messenger of Allah. How should we invoke blessings on you? The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) kept silence so much so that we wished he would not ask him. Then the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Say. He then narrated the tradition like that of Ka’b b. ‘Ujrah. This version adds in the end: In the universe, You are praiseworthy and glorious.

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This tradition has also been reported by ‘Uqbah b. ‘Amr through a different chain of narrators. This version adds:

Say, O Allah, bless Muhammad, the Prophet, the unlettered, and Muhammad’s family.

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Abu Hurairah reported the Prophet (ﷺ) as sayings:

if anyone would like to have the fullest measure granted to him when he invokes blessings on us, the members of the prophet’s family, he should say: O Allah, bless Muhammad, the unlettered Prophet, his wives who are the mother of the faithful, his off springs, and the people of his house as You didst bless the family of Abraham. You are indeed praiseworthy and glorious.