Malik's Muwatta:
Book 15, Number 15.7.24:
Yahya related to me from Malik that Ziyad ibn Abi Ziyad
said that Abu'd-Darda had said, "Shall I not tell you the best of your deeds, and those that give you the highest rank, and
those that are the purest with your King, and are better for you than giving gold and silver, and better for you than meeting
your enemy and striking their necks?" They said, "Of course." He said, "Remembrance (dhikr) of Allah ta ala."
Book 15, Number 15.7.20:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Sumayy, the mawla
of Abu Bakr, from Abu Salih as-Samman from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,
said, "Whoever says 'There is no god but Allah, alone, without any partner. The Kingdom and praise belong to Him and He has
power over everything' (La ilaha illa'llah, wahdahu la sharika lah, lahu'l mulku wa lahu'l hamd, wa huwa ala kulli shay'in
qadir) one hundred times a day, it is the same for him as freeing ten slaves. One hundred good actions are written for him
and one hundred wrong actions are erased from him, and it is a protection from Shaytan for that day until the night. No-one
does anything more excellent than what he does except someone who does more than that."
Book 15, Number 15.7.21:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Sumayy, the mawla
of Abu Bakr, from Abu Salih as-Samman from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,
said, "Whoever says, 'Glory be to Allah and with His praise' (Subhana'llah wa bi-hamdihi) one hundred times in a day will
have his wrong actions taken away from him, even if they are as abundant as the foam on the sea."
Book 15, Number 15.7.22:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu Ubayd, the
mawla of Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, from Ata ibn Yazid al-Laythi that Abu Hurayra said, "Whoever says 'Glory be to Allah'
(Subhana'llah) thirty-three times and 'Allah is Greater' (Allahu akbar) thirty-three times and 'Praise be to Allah' (al-hamdu
lillah) thirty-three times, and seals the hundred with 'There is no god but Allah, alone without any partner. The Kingdom
and praise belong to Him and He has power over everything' (La ilaha illa'llah, wahdahu la sharika lah, lahu'l mulku wa lahu'l
hamd, wa huwa ala kulli shay'in qadir) after every prayer will have his wrong actions forgiven him even if they are abundant
as the foam on the sea."
Book 15, Number 15.7.23:
Yahya related to me from Malik that Umara ibn Sayyad
had heard Said ibn al Musayyab say about abiding good deeds that they were a slave's saying 'Allah is greater' (Allahu akbar)
and 'Glory be to Allah' (Subahana'llah) and 'Praise be to Allah' (al-hamdu lillah) and 'There is no god but Allah and there
is no power and no strength except by Allah.'
La ilaha illa'llah wa la hawla wa la quwwata illa bi'llah.
Book 15, Number 15.7.25:
Malik related to me from Nuaym ibn Abdullah ibn al-Mujmir
from AIi ibn Yahya az-Zuraqi from his father that Rifaa ibn Rafi said, "One day we were praying behind the Messenger of Allah,
may Allah bless him and grant him peace, when the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, raised his
head from ruku and said, 'Allah hears the one who praises Him' (Sami Allahu liman hamidah). A man behind him said, 'Our Lord,
praise belongs to you - blessed, pure and abundant praise' (Rabbana wa laka'l hamd kathiran tayiban mubarakan fihi). When
the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, had finished, he said, 'Who was it who spoke just now?' The
man said, 'I did, Messenger of Allah,' and the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'I saw more
than thirty angels rushing to it to see which one of them would record it first.' "
Book 15, Number 15.8.27:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said
that he had heard that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to say the following dua, "O
Allah, it is You who makes the dawn break and makes the night a time for rest and appoints the sun and moon to reckon by.
Relieve me of debt and enrich me from poverty and let me enjoy my hearing, my sight and my strength in Your way."
Allahumma faliqa'l isbah, wa ja ila'l-layli sakana,
wa'sh-shamsi wa'l-qamari husbana. Iqda anniy addayna, wa'ghnaniy mina'l faqr. Na'mti aniy bi samiy wa basariy, wa quwwatiy
fi sabilik.
Book 15, Number 15.8.29:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from
Abu Ubayd, the mawla of Ibn Azhar, from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace,
said, "You will be answered as long as you are not impatient and say, 'I have made a dua and I have not been answered .' "
Book 15, Number 15.8.30:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from
Abu Abdullah al-Agharr and from Abu Salama from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him
peace, said, "Our Lord, the Blessed and Exalted, descends every night to the heaven of this world when the last third of the
night is still to come and says, 'Who will call on Me so that I may answer him? Who will ask Me so that I may give him? Who
will ask forgiveness of Me so that I may forgive him?' "
Book 15, Number 15.8.31:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said
from Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Harith at-Taymi that A'isha, umm al-muminin said, "I was sleeping by the side of the Messenger
of Allah, mayAllah bless him and grant him peace, and I missed him in the night, so I felt for him with my hand and I put
my hand on his feet and he was in sajda saying, 'I seek refuge in Your pleasure from Your wrath, and in Your pardon from Your
punishment, and in You from You. I cannot enumerate Your praises as You praise Yourself.' "
Audhu bi ridaka min sakhatika, wa bi muafatika min
uqubatika wa bika minka, la uhsiy thana'an alayka, anta kama athnayta ala nafsika.
Book 15, Number 15.8.34:
Yahya related to me from Malik from Abu'z Zubayr al-Makki
from Tawus al-Yamani from Abdullah ibn Abbas that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to
say, when he rose for prayer in the middle of the night, "O Allah, praise belongs to You. You are the light of the heavens
and the earth and praise belongs toYou.You are the Sustainer of the heavens and the earth and praise belongs to You. You are
the Lord of the heavens and the earth and whoever is in them. You are the Truth, and Your words are true. Your promise is
true, and the meeting with You is true. The Garden is true and the Fire is true and the Hour is true. O Allah, I submit toYou
and I accept You and I trust in You and I turn to You and I argue by You and I summon toYou for judgement. Forgive me what
I have sent before me and what I have left behind, what I have kept secret and what I have proclaimed, You are my god - there
is no god but You."
Allahumma laka'l-hamdu anta nuru's-samawati wa'l-ardi,
wa laka'l-hamdu anta qayamu's-Samawati wa'l-ardi, wa laka'l-hamdu anta rabbu's-Samawati wa'l-ardi,wamanfihina.Anta'l-haqqu,waqawluka'lhaqqu,
wa waduka'l-haqqu, wa liqa'uka haqqun, wa jannatu haqqun, wa naru haqqun, wa sactu haqqun. Allahumma laka aslamtu, wa bikaamantu,
waalayka tawakaltu, wa ilayka anabtu, wa bika khasamtu, wa ilayka hakamtu, fa'ghfirliy ma qadamtu wa akhartu wa asrartu, wa
alantu. Anta ilahiy, la ilaha illa ant.
Book 15, Number 15.8.36:
Yahya related to me from Malik that Zayd ibn Aslam
used to say, "No-one makes a dua without one of three things happening. Either it is answered, or it is stored up for him,
or wrong actions are atoned for by it."
Sahih Muslim:
Book 035, Number 6505:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be
upon him) as saying Allah has mobile (squads) of angels, who have no other work (to attend to but) to follow the assemblies
of Dhikr and when they find such assemblies in which there is Dhikr (of Allah) they sit in them and some of them surround
the others with their wings till the space between them and the sky of the world is fully covered, and when they disperse
(after the assembly of Dhikr is adjourned) they go upward to the heaven and Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, asks them although
He is best informed about them: Where have you come from? They say: We come from Thine servants upon the earth who had been
glorifying Thee (reciting Subhan Allah), uttering Thine Greatness (saying Allah o-Akbar) and uttering Thine Oneness (La ilaha
ill Allah) and praising Thee (uttering al-Hamdu Lillah) and begging of Thee. Be would say: What do they beg of Me? They would
say: They beg of Thee the Paradise of Thine. He (God) would say: Have they seen My Paradise? They said: No, our Lord. He would
say: (What it would be then) if they were to see Mine Paradise? They (the angels) said: They seek Thine protection. He (the
Lord) would say: Against what do they seek protection of Mine? They (the angels) would say: Our Lord, from the Hell-Fire.
He (the Lord) would say: Have they seen My Fire? They would say: No. He (the Lord) would say: What it would be if they were
to see My Fire? They would say: They beg of Thee forgiveness. He would say: I grant pardon to them, and confer upon them what
they ask for and grant them protection against which they seek protection. They (the angels) would again say: Our Lord, there
is one amongst them such and such simple servant who happened to pass by (that assembly) and sat there along with them (who
had been participating in that assembly). He (the Lord) would say: I also grant him pardon, for they are a people the seat-fellows
of whom are in no way unfortunate.
Book 035, Number 6495:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him as saying that Allah thus stated: I live in the thought of My servant as he thinks of Me and with him as he calls
Me.
Book 035, Number 6496:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be
upon him) as saying that Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, said: When My servant draws close to Me by the span of a palm, I
draw close to him by the cubit and when he draws close to Me by the cubit, I draw close to him by the space (covered) by two
hands, and when he draws close to Me by the space (covered) by two hands, I go in hurry towards him.
Book 035, Number 6501:
Anas reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) visited a person from amongst the Muslims in order to inquire (about his health) who had grown feeble like the chicken.
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Did you supplicate for anything or beg of Him about that? He said: Yes. I
used to utter (these words): Impose punishment upon me earlier in this world, what Thou art going to impose upon me in the
Hereafter. Thereupon Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: Hallowed be Allah, you have neither the power nor forbearance
to take upon yourself (the burden of His Punishment). Why did you not say this: O Allah, grant us good in the world and good
in the Hereafter, and save us from the torment of Fire. He (the Holy Prophet) made this supplication (for him) and he was
all right.
Book 035, Number 6506:
Qatada asked Anas which Supplication Allah's Apostle
(may peace be upon him) frequently made. He said: The supplication that he (the Holy Prophet made very frequently is this:"
O Allah, grant us the good in this world and the good in the Hereafter and save us from the torment of Hell-Fire." He (Qatada)
said that whenever Anas had to supplicate he made this very supplication, and whenever he (intended) to make another supplication
he (inserted) this very supplication in that.
Book 035, Number 6508:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: He who uttered these words:" There is no god but Allah, the One, having no partner with Him. Sovereignty
belongs to Him and all the praise is due to Him, and He is Potent over everything" one hundred times every day there is a
reward of emancipating ten slaves for him, and there are recorded hundred virtues to his credit, and hundred vices are blotted
out from his scroll, and that is a safeguard for him against the Satan on that day till evening and no one brings anything
more excellent than this, except one who has done more than this (who utters these words more than one hundred times and does
more good acts) and he who utters:" Hallowed be Allah, and all praise is due to Him," one hundred times a day, his sins are
obliterated even if they are equal to the extent of the foam of the ocean.
Book 035, Number 6512:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: The uttering of (these words):" Hallowed be Allah; all praise is due to Allah, there is no god but Allah
and Allah is the Greatest," is dearer to me than anything over which the sun rises.
Book 035, Number 6518:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as saying: He who alleviates the suffering of a brother out of the sufferings of the world, Allah would alleviate
his suffering from the sufferings of the Day of Resurrection, and he who finds relief for one who is hard pressed, Allah would
make things easy for him in the Hereafter, and he who conceals (the faults) of a Muslim, Allah would conceal his faults in
the world and in the Hereafter. Allah is at the back of a servant so long as the servant is at the back of his brother, and
he who treads the path in search of know- ledge, Allah would make that path easy, leading to Paradise for him and those persons
who assemble in the house among the houses of Allah (mosques) and recite the Book of Allah and they learn and teach the Qur'an
(among themselves) there would descend upon them the tranquillity and mercy would cover them and the angels would surround
them and Allah makes a mention of them in the presence of those near Him, and he who is slow-paced in doing good deeds, his
(high) descent does not make him go ahead.
Book 035, Number 6520:
Agharr Abi Muslim reported: I bear witness to the fact
that both Abu Huraira and Abu Sa'id Khudri were present when Allah's Messenger may peace be upon him) said: The people do
not sit but they are surrounded by angels and covered by Mercy, and there descends upon them tranquillity as they remember
Allah, and Allah makes a mention of them to those who are near Him. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Shu'ba
with the same chain of transmitters.
Book 035, Number 6522:
Al-Agharr al-Muzani, who was one amongst the Companions
(of the Holy Prophet) reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: There is (at times) some sort of shade
upon my heart, and I seek forgiveness from Allah a hundred times a day.
Book 035, Number 6557:
Farwa' b. Naufal Ashja'i reported: I asked: 'A'isha,
in what words did Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) supplicate Allah? She said that he used to utter:" I seek refuge
in Thee from the evil of what I did and from the evil of what I did not."
Book 035, Number 6580:
Abu Huraira reported that Fatima came to Allah's Apostle
(may peace be upon him) and asked for a servant and told him of the hardship of household work. He said: You would not be
able to get a servant from us. May I not direct you to what is better than the servant for you? Recite Subhaana Allah thirty-three
times, al- Hamdu li-Allah thirty-three times and Allah-o-Akbar thirty-four times as you go to bed. This hadith has been narrated
on the authority of Suhail with the same chain of transmitters.
Book 035, Number 6581:
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be
upon him) as say- ing. When you listen to the crowing of the cock, ask Allah for His favour as it sees Angels and when you
listen to the braying of the donkey, seek refuge in Allah from the Satan for it sees Satan.
Book 035, Number 6587:
Abu Dharr reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) said: Should I not inform you about the words liked most by Allah? I said: Allah's Mes- senger, do inform me
about the words liked most by Allah. He said: Verily, the words liked most by Allah are:" hallowed be Allah and praise is
due to Him."
Book 035, Number 6588:
Abu Dharr reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) said: There is no believing servant who supplicates for his brother behind his back (in his absence) that the
Angels do not say: The same be for you too.
Book 035, Number 6592:
Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (may
peace be upon him) said: Allah is pleased with His servant who says: Al-Hamdu lillah While taking a morsel of food tnd while
drinking.
Book 035, Number 6593:
Abu Huraira reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace
be upon him) said: The supplication of every one of you is granted if he does not grow impatient and says: I supplicated but
it was not granted.
Sahih Bukhari:
Volume 1, Book 12, Number 804:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Some poor people came to the Prophet and said, "The
wealthy people will get higher grades and will have permanent enjoyment and they pray like us and fast as we do. They have
more money by which they perform the Hajj, and 'Umra; fight and struggle in Allah's Cause and give in charity." The Prophet
said, "Shall I not tell you a thing upon which if you acted you would catch up with those who have surpassed you? Nobody would
overtake you and you would be better than the people amongst whom you live except those who would do the same. Say "Sub-han-al-lah",
"Alhamdu-lillah" and "Allahu Akbar" thirty three times each after every (compulsory) prayer." We differed and some of us said
that we should say, "Subhan-al-lah" thirty three times and "Alhamdu lillah" thirty three times and "Allahu Akbar" thirty four
times. I went to the Prophet who said, "Say, "Subhan-al-lah" and "Alhamdu lillah" and "Allahu Akbar" all together for thirty
three times."
Volume 1, Book 12, Number 797:
Narrated 'Abdullah:
When we prayed with the Prophet we used to say, "Peace
be on Allah from His slaves and peace be on so and so." The Prophet said, "Don't say As-Salam be on Allah, for He Himself
is As-Salam, but say, 'At-tahiyatu lil-lahi was-salawatu wat-taiyibatu. As-salamu 'Alaika aiyuhan-Nabiyu warahmatu-l-lahi
wa barakatuhu. As-salamu 'alaina wa 'ala ibadillahis-salihin. (If you say this then it will be for all the slaves in heaven
or between heaven and earth). Ashhadu an la-ilaha illallahu wa ashhadu anna Muhammadan 'Abduhu wa Rasuluhu.' Then select the
invocation you like best and recite it." (See Hadith No. 794, 795 & 796).
Volume 1, Book 12, Number 796:
Narrated Abu Bakr As-Siddiq:
I asked Allah's Apostle to teach me an invocation so
that I may invoke Allah with it in my prayer. He told me to say, "Allahumma inni zalumtu nafsi zulman kathiran, Wala yaghfirudhdhunuba
illa anta faghfirli maghfiratan min 'Indika, war-hamni innaka antal-ghafururrahim (O Allah! I have done great injustice to
myself and none except You forgives sins, so please forgive me and be Merciful to me as You are the Forgiver, the Merciful)."
Volume 1, Book 12, Number 795:
Narrated 'Aisha:
(the wife of the Prophet) Allah's Apostle used
to invoke Allah in the prayer saying "Allahumma inni a'udhu bika min adhabil-qabri, wa a'udhu bika min fitnatil-masihid-dajjal,
wa a'udhu bika min fitnatil-mahya wa fitnatil-mamati. Allahumma inni a'udhu bika minal-ma thami wal-maghrami. (O Allah, I
seek refuge with You from the punishment of the grave and from the afflictions of Masi,h Ad-Dajjal and from the afflictions
of life and death. O Allah, I seek refuge with You from the sins and from being in debt)." Somebody said to him, "Why do you
so frequently seek refuge with Allah from being in debt?" The Prophet replied, "A person in debt tells lies whenever he speaks,
and breaks promises whenever he makes (them)." 'Aisha also narrated: I heard Allah's Apostle in his prayer seeking refuge
with Allah from the afflictions of Ad-dajjal.
