your Lord, the Most Great” (56:74), he said, “Make it part of your bowing.” When the verse, “Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High” (87:1) was revealed, he said, “Make it part of your prostration.”

190 — In the two Ṣaḥīḥs (1) the Prophet ﷺ said: “Two words are beloved to the All-Merciful, light upon the tongue yet heavy on the scale: subḥān Allāh wa bi-ḥamdih, subḥān Allāh al-ʿAẓīm.”

191 — In the two Ṣaḥīḥs (2) it is related from Abū Hurayrah that the Prophet ﷺ said: “Whoever says [in] (A) a single day one hundred times subḥān Allāh wa bi-ḥamdih, his sins will be erased even if they are like the foam of the sea.”

Why the prayer is called “tasbīḥ”

192 — It has been said that the formal prayer was named tasbīḥ because it contains tasbīḥ, just as it is called qiyām (standing) and Qurʾān because it includes standing and recitation, and is likewise termed a rakʿah or a sujūd because it incorporates bowing and prostration. Yet there is a difference between His words, “Glorify the name of your Lord, the Most High,” and “the Most Great.” These verses have been explained as prescribing unqualified tasbīḥ: the servant’s utterance during his bowing