“When you come to your bed, perform ablution just as you do for the prayer, then lie on your right side and say: ‘O Allah, I have submitted my soul to You, I have turned my face toward You, I have consigned my affairs to You, and I have taken refuge in You, hoping in You and fearing You. There is no refuge and no deliverance from You except with You. I believe in Your Book that You have revealed and in Your Prophet whom You have sent.’ If you die that night, you will die upon the innate disposition (fiṭrah). Let these be the last words you utter.” Agreed upon.

1463 – Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that when the Prophet ﷺ lay down in his bed he would say, “Praise be to Allah who has fed us, given us drink, sufficed us, and sheltered us; how many there are who have neither one to suffice them nor one to shelter them.” Narrated by Muslim.

1464 – Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ wished to sleep, he would place his right hand beneath his cheek and then say, “O Allah, protect me from Your punishment on the Day You resurrect Your servants.” Narrated by al-Tirmidhī, who graded it ḥasan (sound).

Abū Dāwūd also transmitted it through the narration of Ḥafṣah (may Allah be pleased with her), and in his version the Prophet ﷺ would say it three times.

These traditions are among the rest of the aḥādīth that the author has brought in his book Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn under the chapter “Invocations for Sleep.” Among them is the ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah that the Prophet ﷺ, whenever he