Narrated Umm Salamah, Ummul Muminin: Some relative of Umm Salamah said: The bed of the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم was set as a man is laid in his grave; the mosque was towards his head.
Read More..Narrated Hafsah, Ummul Muminin: When the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم wanted to go to sleep, he put his right hand under his cheek and would then say three times: O Allah, guard me from Thy punishment on the day when Thou raisest up Thy servants.
Read More..Al-Bara bin Azib said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم 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 thee, entrusted my affairs to thee, and committed my back to thee out of desire for and fear to thee. There is no refuge and no place of safety from thee except by having recource to thee. I believe in Thy Book which Thou hast sent down and in Thy prophet whom thou hast 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 Thy Messenger whom Thou hast sent”. He said: No, say: “and in Thy Prophet whom Thou hast sent.
Read More..Al-Bara bin Azib said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم 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.
Read More..The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by al-Bara bin Azil from the prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم 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.
Read More..Hudhaifah said: when the prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم lay down on his bed (at night), he would say: O Allah! In Thy 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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