all praise” (1), and at other times he would say (2): “O Allah, our Lord, to You belongs all praise” (3). All these wordings are authentically reported from him. As for combining “O Allah” with the conjunction “and,” this has not been authentically established (4).
His practice was to prolong this part of the prayer for as long as his bowing and prostration. It is authentically reported that he would (5) say during it (6):
“Allah hears those who praise Him. O Allah, our Lord, to You belongs all praise, filling the heavens, filling the earth, and filling whatever else You will. You are worthy of praise and glory. The most fitting words a servant can say—and we are all Your servants—are: None can withhold what You give, none can give what You withhold, and wealth cannot avail its possessor before You” (7).
(1) Reported by al-Bukhārī from Abū Hurayra (722) and Anas (733).
(2) The passage “Our Lord, to You belongs all praise … he said” is also omitted from k because the copyist’s eye skipped ahead.
(3) Reported by al-Bukhārī (796, 3228) and Muslim (409) from Abū Hurayra, may Allah be pleased with him.
(4) This is what he stated, may Allah have mercy on him. Perhaps he relied on what Abū Dāwūd reported from Imam Ahmad in his Masā’il (p. 51): “I asked: ‘Do you not approve of saying: O Allah, our Lord, and to You belongs all praise?’ He replied: ‘We have heard nothing concerning this.’” He overlooked the fact that al-Bukhārī (795) reported this wording from Abū Hurayra, as did Mālik in Abū Mus‘ab al-Zuhrī’s transmission (225). See Fath al-Bārī (2:283).
(5) Kāna (“would”) is omitted from k.
(6) Fīhi (“during it”) is omitted from the printed edition.
(7) Reported by Muslim from Abū Sa‘īd al-Khudrī (477) and Ibn ‘Abbās (478), neither version including “Allah hears those who praise Him.” The report from Abū Sa‘īd also appears in Abū Dāwūd (847), al-Nasā’ī’s al-Mujtabā (1068) and al-Kubrā (659), Abū ‘Awāna (1843), and others. The report from Ibn ‘Abbās appears in al-Nasā’ī’s al-Mujtabā (1066) and al-Kubrā (657), Abū ‘Awāna (1844), and others.