Gifts of Knowledge

From Abu Hurairah who said, “Allaah’s Messenger ﷺsaid, ‘When one of you wakes up in the morning let him say:

أَصْبَحْتُ أُثْنِيَ عَلَيْكَ حَمْداً وأَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا الله
Aṣbaḥtu Uthniya ʿalaika Ḥamdan
wa Ash-hadu an Lā ilāha illallāh

‘I have woken up praising You, and I bear witness that none has the right to be worshipped except Allaah,’ three times, and when he reaches the evening, let him say the same.’”

Reported by an-Nisāʾī in As-Sunan al-Kubrā, 10406, and in ʿAmalul-Yawmi wal-Lailah, 571, and its isnād is ḥasan inshā Allaah.

And it is surprising that this dhikr is not found in many books specialising in the morning and evening adhkār that have become widespread among people, except for what Shaikh Muḥammad Ismāʿīl al-Muqaddam, may Allaah protect him, mentioned in An-Naṣīḥah fīl-Adhkār wal-ʾAdʿiyah Aṣ-Ṣaḥīḥah, and likewise the eminent Shaikh, al-ʿAllāmah Muqbil ibn Hādī al-Wādiʿī includes it in Al-Jāmiʾ aṣ-Ṣaḥīḥ fīma laysa fiṣ-Ṣaḥīḥayn.

Written by Majrī ash-Shahrānī.
Kunnāshah al-Bayrūtī Farāʾid Multaqaṭun wa Fawāʾid Mutanawwiʾah min Buṭūni Kutubis-Salaf al-Mutafanninah, vol. 4, p. 518.