Seeking refuge

Prayer (Kitab Al-Salat): Detailed Injunctions about Witr

Sunan Abī Dāwūd 1547

اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنَ الْجُوعِ فَإِنَّهُ بِئْسَ الضَّجِيعُ وَأَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنَ الْخِيَانَةِ فَإِنَّهَا بِئْسَتِ الْبِطَانَةُ

Allāhumma innī aʿūdhu bika mina al-jūʿi fa-innah biʾsa aḍ-ḍajīʿu wa-aʿūdhu bika mina al-khiyānah fa-innahā biʾsati al-biṭānah

Transliteration generated from the Arabic vowel marks

The full narration

Narrated AbuHurayrah: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to say: "O Allah, I seek refuge in Thee from hunger, for it is an evil bed-fellow; and I seek refuge in Thee from treachery, for it is an evil hidden trait

Source

Sunan Abī Dāwūd · 1547

Ḥasan
  • Al-Albani: Hasan
  • Muhammad Muhyi Al-Din Abdul Hamid: Hasan
  • Zubair Ali Zai: Daif

Note on the chain. Scholars differ on this chain. Zubair Ali Zai grades it Daif.

Also narrated in Sunan Ibn Mājah 3354, Sunan an-Nasā'ī 5468.

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