236 – Abu Saʿid al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) said:
“When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ raised his head from bowing he would say:
‘O Allah, our Lord, to You belongs all praise—praise that fills the heavens, fills the earth, and fills whatever else You will beyond that; You are worthy of praise and majesty. The truest words a servant can say—and all of us are Your servants—are: O Allah, none can withhold what You give, none can give what You withhold, and no possessor of wealth and power is of any avail against You.’”
Related by Muslim (1).

Vocabulary of the ḥadīth:
– rabbana laka al-hamd (Our Lord, to You belongs all praise): al-Kirmani said that the phrase may occur without the conjunction “and,” while some narrations include it. Both forms are permissible, with no preference for either in the soundest opinion.
– milʾ al-samawāt wa-al-arḍ (filling the heavens and the earth): the word milʾ is in the accusative as a cognate accusative, or in the nominative as the predicate of an omitted subject. Al-Khattabi explained that this is figurative language: speech is not quantifiable by measures nor contained by vessels; the point is to denote great abundance—were the praise corporeal, it would fill all of that.
– baʿd (“beyond”/“after”): an adverb severed from its genitive construction, with the genitive still intended; thus it is indeclinable with a ḍammah.
– min shayʾ (“of anything”): an explanatory phrase clarifying “whatever You will.”
– ahl al-thanāʾ (worthy of praise): accusative as a specification, or a vocative from which the particle of address has been omitted; it may also appear in the nominative as the predicate of an omitted subject, the implied meaning being: “You are worthy of praise.”