that win Your good pleasure. O Allah, lighten for us this journey of ours and fold up its distance. You are the Companion on the road and the Guardian over our families. O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the hardship of travel, from gloomy sights, and from an ill return with respect to property and family.

When he came back he would recite the same words, adding: “We return in safety, repentant, devoted in worship, praising our Lord.”

In another narration: “Whenever the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and his Companions climbed a rise they would pronounce the takbīr, and when they descended they would declare tasbīḥ.” This wording is recorded in the authentic collections.

On Boarding the Sea
It is related from al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī — may Allah be pleased with him — that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “A protection for my community from drowning when they embark is to say: ‘In the name of Allah be its course and its anchorage; surely my Lord is All-Forgiving, Most Merciful’ (Hūd 11:41), and, ‘They have not valued Allah with the value that is His due’ (al-Anʿām 6:91).”