A Neglected, Uncommon Dhikr for the Morning and Evening
September 13, 2025 § Leave a comment
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.
An Abandoned Sunnah: Performing Tayammum to Return Salaam While Resident
August 29, 2012 § 2 Comments
It was reported from Abdur-Rahmaan bin Hurmuz, from Umair, the freed slave of Ibn Abbaas that he heard him saying, “I went with Abdullaah bin Yasaar, the freed-slave of Maimunah, the wife of the Prophet, to Abul-Juhaim bin Al-Haarith bin As-Simmah Al-Ansaari. Abul-Juhaim said, ‘The Messenger of Allaah came [to us once] from the direction of the well of Jamal. A man met him and gave him salaam, but the Messenger of Allaah did not return the salaam until he came to a wall and wiped his face and hands [i.e., performed tayammum]. Then he returned the salaam.’”
Authentic | Saheeh Sunan Abi Dawud, no. 329
In al-Muhalla, Ibn Hazm said, “And this, i.e., to perform dry-ablution [tayammum] to return salaam while one is resident, is a recommended [mustahab] action, and a group of the Salaf stated that.” Al-Muhalla, 2/156.
And Ibn Khuzaimah gave a chapter the title, ‘Chapter: The Recommendation to Perform Dry-Ablution [Tayammum] While Resident to Return the Greeting of Salaam Even if Water is Present.’ Saheeh Ibn Khuzaimah, 1/139.
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