In Allah’s name I lie down

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Arabic

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ وَضَعْتُ جَنْبِي اللَّهُمَّ اغْفِرْ لِي ذَنْبِي وَأَخْسِئْ شَيْطَانِي وَفُكَّ رِهَانِي وَاجْعَلْنِي فِي النَّدِيِّ الْأَعْلَى

Transliteration

Bismillāhi waḍaʿtu janbī Allāhumma-ghfir lī dhanbī Wa akhsiʾ shayṭānī Wa fukka rihānī Wajʿalnī fin-nadiyyil-aʿlā

Meaning

in the name of Allah, I have laid down my side O Allah! forgive me my sin, drive away my devil, free me from my responsibility and place me in the highest assembly.

Virtue of This Dhikr & Related Hadith

Editorial summary (not a verbatim hadith translation): This report gives a bedtime prayer asking for forgiveness, the repulsion of Satan, release from bondage and a place in the highest assembly.

Note

The narrator is named Abu al-Azhar in this chain; Abu Dawud records Abu al-Zuhayr in another transmission. Some Latin transliteration is editorial and approved by the content editor; it is not quoted from this source.

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