116 / Among the Remembrances for Morning and Evening
Among the magnificent supplications that the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—regularly recited every morning and evening—indeed, never omitting them whenever morning or evening came—is the report narrated in Sunan Abī Dāwūd, Sunan Ibn Mājah, and other works, on the authority of Abdullah ibn Umar—may Allah be pleased with them both—who said:
“The Messenger of Allah—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—never omitted these supplications in the evening or the morning: ‘O Allah, I ask You for well-being in this world and the Hereafter. O Allah, I ask You for pardon and well-being in my religion, my worldly affairs, my family, and my wealth. O Allah, conceal my faults and allay my fears. O Allah, protect me from before me and behind me, from my right and my left, and from above me. I seek refuge in Your greatness from being swallowed up from beneath me.’”1.
The Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—began this magnificent supplication by asking Allah for well-being in this world and the Hereafter. Nothing can compare with well-being, and whoever is granted well-being in this world and the Hereafter has received his full share of goodness. Al-Tirmidhī narrated in his Sunan from al-Abbās ibn Abd al-Muttalib—may Allah be pleased with him—the uncle of the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—who said:
“I said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, teach me something that I may ask of Allah, Mighty and Majestic.’ He replied, ‘Ask Allah for well-being.’ Several days passed, after which I returned and said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, teach me something that I may ask of Allah.’ He then said to me, ‘O Abbās, O uncle of the Messenger of Allah, ask Allah for well-being in this world and the Hereafter.’”2.
It is also narrated in al-Musnad and Sunan al-Tirmidhī, on the authority of Abū Bakr al-Siddīq—may Allah be pleased with him—that the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—