1364 – Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported: “When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ entered the morning he would say, ‘O Allah, by Your grace we enter the morning, and by Your grace we enter the evening; by Your grace we live and by Your grace we die, and to You is the resurrection.’ When evening came he would say the same words, except that he added: ‘and to You is the ultimate return.’ ” It was narrated by the Four ⦗1⦘.

Hadith grading:
The report is ṣaḥīḥ (sound). Ṣiddīq Ḥasan said: It was recorded by the compilers of the Sunan and by Ibn Ḥibbān. Al-Tirmidhī stated, “This hadith is ṣaḥīḥ,” and it was likewise authenticated by Ibn Ḥibbān and al-Nawawī. Aḥmad transmitted it with a chain whose narrators are the same men found in the authentic collections. Al-Tirmidhī, Ibn Ḥajar, al-Suyūṭī, and al-Manāwī graded it ḥasan. Shaykh al-Albānī remarked: “Its chain is good; all of its transmitters are trustworthy and belong to the narrators used by Muslim.”

Vocabulary notes:
• by Your grace we enter the morning – the preposition bi- denotes seeking help through You in all these matters, and the prepositional phrase is fronted to indicate exclusivity. “We enter the morning” means we have arrived at the morning along with its activities.
• and to You is the resurrection – nushūr is the resurrection after death. The wording is apt because sleep is the brother of death, so awakening resembles being brought back to life after being caused to die.
• and to You is the ultimate return – maṣīr means the final destination, and mentioning it in the evening is contextually fitting;