(Recited transmission:) from ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad; Abu al-Faḍl Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl informed us; Muḥallam ibn Ismāʿīl informed us; al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad al-Sijzī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq narrated to us; Qutaybah narrated to us; al-Mufaḍḍal narrated, from ʿUqayl, from Ibn Shihāb, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah:

Whenever the Prophet ﷺ went to bed each night, he would bring his two palms together, blow softly into them, then recite into them: “Say: He is Allah—One,” “Say: I seek refuge with the Lord of daybreak,” and “Say: I seek refuge with the Lord of humankind.” He would then wipe with those hands whatever he could of his body, starting with his head and face and the front of his body, and he would do that three times.

It was also recorded by al-Bukhārī (1) from Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd in the same wording.

We have obtained a good number of short-chained narrations from al-Zuhrī; this biographical entry has become lengthy, and certain matters still remain. Allah is the One who grants success.

Muḥammad ibn Saʿd said: al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Mutawakkil al-ʿAsqalānī informed me, saying, “I saw al-Zuhrī’s grave at Udma, which lies beyond Shaghb and Baddā (2). It is the first district of Palestine and the last district of the Hijaz, and al-Zuhrī owned an estate there. I saw his grave built up in a ridge and plastered with gypsum.”

Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān said: “Al-Zuhrī died in 124 or 123 AH.”

Abu ʿUbayd and Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn agreed with him, while several others said: “He died in the year four.”

Maʿn ibn ʿĪsā said: “The nephew of al-Zuhrī narrated to us—”