Remembrance on retiring to bed

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Arabic

لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَحْدَهُ لَا شَرِيكَ لَهُ لَهُ الْمُلْكُ وَلَهُ الْحَمْدُ وَهُوَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ لَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ وَالْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ وَلَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ وَاللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ

Transliteration

lā ilāha illallāhu waḥdahu lā sharīka lah, lahul-mulku wa lahul-ḥamd, wa huwa `alā kulli shay'in Qadīr. Lā ḥawla wa lā quwwata 'illā billāh. Subḥānallāh, walḥamdu lillāh, wa lā ilāha illallāh, wallāhu 'Akbar

Meaning

None has the right to be worshipped but Allah alone, Who has no partner. To Allah belongs the dominion, and to Him is the praise and He is Able to do all things. There is no power and no might except by Allah. Glory is to Allah, and praise is to Allah, and there is none worthy of worship but Allah, and Allah is the Most Great.

Virtue of This Dhikr & Related Hadith

Editorial summary (not a verbatim hadith translation): Ibn Hibban includes a report of this remembrance on retiring to bed, with a promise of forgiveness. The narrator’s uncertainty between two words for sins is retained in the Arabic evidence.

Note

The grading is attributed to Ibn Hibban, not presented as a consensus. Dorar gives 5528; its displayed original edition uses 506.

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