Encouragement to make Wudhoo’ and Adhkaar before going to bed

بسم الله والحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله ، وبعد

Hadeeth #1: If a person dies in this state, he would die upon Fitrah

Narrated Al-Baraa’ Ibn `Aazib رضي الله عنه: The Prophet ﷺ said to me:

❝Whenever you go to bed perform ablution like that for the prayer, lie on your right side and say:

اللَّهُمَّ أَسْلَمْتُ وَجْهِي إِلَيْكَ، وَفَوَّضْتُ أَمْرِي إِلَيْكَ، وَأَلْجَأْتُ ظَهْرِي إِلَيْكَ، رَغْبَةً وَرَهْبَةً إِلَيْكَ، لاَ مَلْجَأَ وَلاَ مَنْجَا مِنْكَ إِلَّا إِلَيْكَ، اللَّهُمَّ آمَنْتُ بِكِتَابِكَ الَّذِي أَنْزَلْتَ، وَبِنَبِيِّكَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلْتَ

“Allaahumma aslamtu wajhee ilaika, wa fauwaḌhtu amree ilaika, wa alja’tu Żhahree ilaika raghbatan wa rahbatan ilaika. Laa Malja’a wa laa manjaa minka illaa ilaika. Allaahumma aamantu bi kitaabika-l-ladhee anzalta wa bi nabiyyika-l ladhee arsalta” 

(O Allaah! I surrender to You and entrust all my affairs to You and depend upon You for Your Blessings both with hope and fear of You. There is no fleeing from You, and there is no place of protection and safety except with You O Allaah! I believe in Your Book (the Qur’aan) which You have revealed and in Your Prophet (Muhammad) whom You have sent).

Then if you die on that very night, you will die with Fiṫrah (i.e. Faith or the religion of Islaam). Let the aforesaid words be your last utterance (before sleep).❞

I repeated it before the Prophet ﷺ and when I reached: “Allaahumma amantu bi kitaabika-l-ladhee anzalta (O Allah I believe in Your Book which You have revealed).” I said: "Wa-rasoolika (and your Apostle).” The Prophet ﷺ said: ❝No, (but rather say): “Wa Nabiyyika-l-ladhee arsalta (Your Prophet whom You have sent).❞

[Saheeh al-Bukhaaree (247, 6311) and Saheeh Muslim (6544). In another narration, it is ❝Nafsee❞ instead of ❝Wajhee❞]

Hadeeth #2: If he gets up in the night and supplicates, his supplication will be answered.

Narrated Mu`aadh Ibn Jabal رضي الله عنه: The Prophet ﷺ said:

❝There is no Muslim who sleeps remembering Allaah, and in a state of purity, then wakes up at night, and asks Allaah for good in this world and in the Hereafter, but He (تعالى) will give him that.❞

[Sunan Abu Dawood (3042) and the wordings are his, and Sunan Ibn Maajah (3881) graded as “Saheeh” by Shaikh al-Albaanee]

Note: One of the Du`aas while turning over in the bed

`Aaishah رضي الله عنها narrated that whenever the Messenger of Allaah صلى الله عليه وسلم turned over during the night (in his sleep), he used to say:

لا إله إلا الله الواحد القهار، رب السماوات والأرض وما بينهما العزيز الغفار

Laa ilaaha illaallaahu-l-waahidu-l-qahhaaru, rabbu s-samaawaati wa-l-ardi wa mâ baynahumâ-l-cazîzu-l-ghaffar.

❝None has the right to be worshipped except Allah, The One, AL-Qahhar. Lord of the heavens and the Earth and all between them, The Exalted in Might, The Oft-Forgiving.❞

[Saheeh Ibn Hibbaan (5530) and Musdatrak of al-Haakim (1980) and graded as “Saheeh as per the conditions of Imaam al-Bukhaaree” by Shaikh al-Albaanee in al-Saheehah (2066)]

Hadeeth #3: The Angel supplicates for his forgiveness whenever he turns in bed.

Narrated Abu Hurairah رضي الله عنه that the Messenger of Allaah ﷺ said:

❝Whoever spends (the night) in a state of purity (ablution), an Angel spends the night in his Shi`aar*. He (the person) does not wake up in the hour of the night except that that Angel (supplicates) saying: “O Allaah! Forgive Your slave, so-and-so, for he has spent the night in purification.”❞

[Ibn al-Mubaarak in al-Zuhd (1244), and from his chain by Ibn al-Hibbaan in his Saheeh (1051) and graded as “Hasan” by Shaikh al-Albaanee in al-Saheehah (2539)]

Ibn `Umar رضي الله عنه said that the Messenger of Allaah ﷺ said:

❝Purify these bodies, May Allaah purify you. Whenever a slave spends his night in a state of purity, an angel spends the night in his Shi`aar* and he does not turn over during the night except that he (the angel) says: “O Allah, forgive Your slave, for he went to sleep in a state of purification.”❞

[al-Tabaraanee in al-Kabeer (13620, 13621) and graded as “Hasan” by Shaikh al-Albaanee in al-Saheehah (6/90-91) and Saheeh al-Jaami` (3936) and Saheeh al-Targheeb (597, 599)]

*Al-Shi`aar [الشعار – The thing which is used to cover a person’s body (like clothes, sheet etc.)]

Note: Some English websites have mistranslated the word Shi`aar as hair. They have confused the word al-Shi`aar (الشعار) with al-Sha`r (الشعر).