1480 – Ibn ʿAbbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to say:

“O Allah, to You I have submitted; in You I have believed; upon You I have relied; to You I have turned in repentance; by Your help I contend; and to You I refer judgment. Forgive me for what I have done before and what I will do later, what I have kept hidden and what I have made public. You are the One who brings forward and the One who defers; there is no deity but You.”
Some narrators added: “There is no might nor power except with Allah.” Agreed upon.

[Explanation]
These various hadiths were cited by the author—may Allah have mercy on him—in the chapter on the virtue of supplication and the command to make it in his book Riyad al-Salihin. They contain many statements, among them the Prophet’s ﷺ request that Allah Almighty forgive him his past and future sins. He said, “O Allah, forgive me my past and my future, what I have concealed and what I have made public, and that of which You have fuller knowledge than I.” All of this could be summed up in a single phrase: “O Allah, forgive me all of my sins.” Yet giving detail when one is supplicating is desirable, for it prompts a person to recall everything he has done—what he kept hidden and what he disclosed, what he knows and what he does not—and because the more he persists in asking Allah, the stronger his attachment to Allah becomes, along with his love, fear, and hope of Him. For that reason the Prophet ﷺ would spell out what he asked of his Lord—whether forgiveness of sins or anything else. In the same way, the Messenger ﷺ sought refuge from many matters: from the evil consequences of sins, from their calamities, from the punishment of the grave, and so forth, as you have heard in these hadiths. A person should write these hadiths down from this book and use them to remember Allah thereby.