What to say when going to sleep

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Narrated Hafsah, Ummul Mu'minin:

When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) wanted to go to sleep, he put his right hand under his cheek and would then say three times: O Allah, guard me from Your punishment on the day when You raisest up Your servants.

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Al-Bara b. ‘Azib said :

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to me: When you go to your bed, perform ablution like the ablution for prayer, and then lie on your right side and say: O Allah I have handed over my face to you, entrusted my affairs to you, and committed my back to you out of desire for and fear to you. There is no refuge and no place of safety from you except by having recource to you. I believe in Your Book which You have sent down and in Your prophet whom you have sent down. He said : If you die (that night), you would die in the true religion, and utter these words in the last of that you utter (other prayers). Al-Bara said : I said: I memorise them, and then I repeated, saying “and in Your Messenger whom You have sent”. He said : No, say : “and in Your Prophet (ﷺ) whom You have sent.

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Al-Bara b. Azib said :

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said to me: when you go to bed while you are in the state of purification, lay your head on your right hand. He then mentioned the rest of the tradition in a similar manner as above.

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The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by al-Bara b. Azil from the prophet (ﷺ) to the same effect through a different chain of narrators. One transmitter said:

when you go to your bed while you are in the state of purification. The other said: Perform ablution like the ablution for prayer. He then transmitted the tradition to the effect as Mu’tamir transmitted.

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Hudhaifah said :

when the prophet (ﷺ) lay down on his bed (at night), he would say: O Allah! In Your name I die and live. When he awoke, he said: praise be to Allah who has given us life after causing us to die and to whom we shall be resurrected.

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Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying:

when any of you goes to his bed, he should dust his bedding with the inner extremity of his lower garment, for he does not know what has come on it since he left it. He should then lie down on his right side and say: In Your name, my mercy on it, but if You lettest it go, guard it with that which You guardest Your upright servants.

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Abu Hurairah said:

when the prophet (ﷺ) went to his bed, he used to say : O Allah! Lord of the heavens, Lord of the earth, Lord of everything, who splittest the grain and the kernel, who have sent down the Torah, forelock You seizes. You are the first and there is nothing before you; You are the Last and there is nothing after You; You are the Outward and there is nothing above You; You are the Inward and there is nothing below You. Wahb added in his version : pay the debt for me and grant me riches instead of poverty.

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Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib:

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to say when he lay down: O Allah, I seek refuge in Your noble Person and in Your perfect Words from the evil of what You seizest by its forelock; O Allah! You removest debt and sin; O Allah! your troop's not routed, Your promise is not broken and the riches of the rich do not avail against You. Glory and praise be unto You!.

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Anas said:

When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) went to his bed, he would say: Praise be to Allah who has fed us, given us drink, satisfied us and given us refuge. Many there are who have no one to provide sufficiency for them, or give them refuge.

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Narrated AbulAzhar al-Anmari:

When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) went to his bed at night, he would say: in the name of Allah, I have laid down my side for Allah. O Allah! forgive me my sin, drive away my devil, free me from my responsibility, and place me in the highest assembly. Abu Dawud said: Abu Hammam al-Ahwazi transmitted it from Thawr. He mentioned Abu Zuhair al-Anmari (instead of Abu al-Azhar).

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Farwah b. Nawfal quoted his father as saying that the Prophet (ﷺ) said to Nawfal (his father):

Recite (the Surah) 'Say, O you disbelievers!' and then go to sleep at its end, for it is a declaration of freedom from polytheism.

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‘A’ishah said :

Every night when he prophet (ﷺ) went to his bed, he joined his hands and breathed into them, reciting into them:”say: he is Allah, One” and say ; I seek refuge in the Lord of the dawn and Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of men. Then he would wipe as much of his body as he could with his hands, beginning with his head, his face and the front of his body, doing that three times.

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Narrated Irbad ibn Sariyah:

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to recite al-Musabbihat before going to sleep, and say: They contain a verse which is better than a thousand verses.

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Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:

When the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) went to his bed, he would say: Praise be to Allah Who has given me sufficiency, has guarded me, given me food and drink, been most gracious to me, and given to me most lavishly. Praise be to Allah in every circumstance. O Allah! Lord and King of everything, God of everything, I seek refuge in You from Hell.

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Narrated AbuHurayrah:

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: If anyone lies on his side where he does not remember Allah, deprivation will descend on him on the Day of Resurrection; and if anyone sits in a place where he does not remember Allah, deprivation will descend on him on the Day of Resurrection.