the Messenger of Allah ﷺ saying:
“Allāhumma innī aʿūdhu bika min al-kufr wa’l-faqr wa ʿadhāb al-qabr (O Allah, I seek refuge in You from unbelief, poverty, and the punishment of the grave).”

Al-Ḥākim commented, “Authentic according to the conditions of Muslim,” and al-Dhahabī concurred; their ruling is correct.

The narration was also transmitted by al-Nasāʾī (1/198 and 2/315), by Ibn al-Sunnī in ʿAmal al-Yawm wa’l-Laylah (109) citing al-Nasāʾī, by al-Ḥākim again (1/252–253), and by Aḥmad (5/44 and 5/36) in a more complete wording. Muslim ibn Abī Bakrah said:

“My father used to recite these supplications after the prayer, so I recited them too. He asked, ‘My son, from whom did you learn this?’ I replied, ‘From you.’ He said, ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to say them after the prayer.’”

I say: This collation and analysis show that al-Ḥākim has preserved from the ḥadith only the plea for refuge from unbelief, poverty, and the punishment of the grave, and that these three were what the Prophet ﷺ would say after the prayer. By contrast, the prayer for well-being recorded by Abū Dāwūd and others is not restricted to the time after the prayer. Allah knows best.

His words: “19. Aḥmad, Ibn Abī Shaybah, and Ibn Mājah have narrated—through a chain that contains an unidentified transmitter—from Umm Salamah that the Prophet ﷺ used to say, when he had completed the dawn prayer and given salām: ‘Allāhumma innī asʾaluka ʿilman nāfiʿan wa rizqan wāsiʿan wa ʿamalan mutaqabbalan (O Allah, I ask You for beneficial knowledge, ample provision, and accepted deeds).’”

I say: However, al-Ṭabarānī also reported it in al-Muʿjam al-Ṣaghīr with a sound chain devoid of that unknown narrator, as I have clarified in al-Rawḍ al-Naḍīr 1199.

Note: The kunyah particle Abī has dropped out of the printed copies of the book, yet it appears in Ibn Abī Shaybah’s Muṣannaf (10/234) in the route that contains the unidentified transmitter.