—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—to recite the surahs of refuge at the end of every prayer. Abū Hātim Ibn Hibbān also narrated it in his Sahīh, as did al-Hākim in al-Mustadrak, saying: “It is authentic according to Muslim’s criteria.” Al-Tirmidhī’s wording is: “the two surahs of refuge.”

In al-Tabarānī’s Mu‘jam and the Musnad of Abū Ya‘lā al-Mawsilī (1), a narration through ‘Umar ibn Nabhān—whose reliability has been criticized—from Jābir, who traced it back to the Prophet, states: “There are three deeds which, if a person performs them while having faith, will allow him to enter through whichever gate of Paradise he wishes and to be married to fair, wide-eyed maidens wherever he wishes: pardoning his killer, repaying a concealed debt, and reciting ‘Say: He is Allah, One’ ten times at the end of every obligatory prayer.” Abū Bakr asked: “Or just one of them, O Messenger of Allah?” He replied: “Or just one of them.”

He advised Mu‘ādh to say at the end of every prayer: “O Allah, help me to remember You, thank You, and worship You well” (2).

“At the end of the prayer” here may mean either before or after the closing salutation, and our teacher favored the view that