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Al-Shamail Al-Muhammadiya | Episode (24) | Chapter on what was mentioned in the sleep of the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
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With pens of longing,
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And the ink of love,
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We record lines more precious than gold,
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In describing the Master of all creation,
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Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.
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The Prophetic characteristics (Shama'il).
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Chapter: What has been narrated regarding the sleep of the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him.
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On the authority of al-Bara' Ibn 'Azib, may Allah be pleased with both of them,
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That the Prophet, peace be upon him,
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Whenever he lay down to sleep,
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Would place his right palm under his right cheek and say:
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"O Allah, save me from Your punishment on the day You resurrect Your servants."
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In another narration: "On the day You gather Your servants."
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In this hadith, there are three manners
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Recommended for the Muslim when retiring to bed.
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The first:
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Lying on the right side.
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The second:
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Placing the right palm under the right cheek.
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The third:
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To say:
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"O Allah, save me from Your punishment on the day You resurrect Your servants."
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Meaning: I ask You, my Lord, to protect me from Your punishment on the day You resurrect Your servants for the reckoning.
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The Prophet, peace be upon him, would say this,
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Even though Allah had forgiven his past and future sins,
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Out of humility before Allah, the Exalted, and in reverence for Him,
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And to teach his Ummah to say it before sleeping,
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In case this might be the end of their lives,
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So that the final act of their lives would be the remembrance of Allah, the Exalted,
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Along with repentance and the admission of shortcomings.
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On the authority of Hudhayfah, may Allah be pleased with him, who said:
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The Prophet, peace be upon him,
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Whenever he retired to his bed, would say:
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"O Allah, in Your name I die and I live."
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And when he awoke, he would say:
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"Praise be to Allah who gave us life after having taken it, and to Him is the resurrection."
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In this hadith,
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It is mentioned that the Prophet, peace be upon him,
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Whenever he retired to his bed,
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Meaning, he lay down to sleep,
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He would say:
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"O Allah, in Your name I die and I live."
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Meaning: By the mention of Your name, I live as long as I live, and upon it, I die.
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And his saying, "And when he awoke,"
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Meaning, when he became alert from his sleep,
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He would say:
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"Praise be to Allah who gave us life after having taken it."
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Meaning: He returned our souls to us after having seized them from activity during sleep.
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He referred to sleep as death,
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Because consciousness and movement cease during it.
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Hence, they said:
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"Sleep is the brother of death."
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And his saying, "And to Him is the resurrection,"
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The resurrection refers to the revival or the rising from the dead.
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Thus, the Prophet, peace be upon him, drew attention,
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By the return of wakefulness after sleep,
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Which is like death,
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To the affirmation of the resurrection after death.
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On the authority of 'A'ishah, may Allah be pleased with her, who said:
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The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him,
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Whenever he retired to his bed every night,
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Would cup his palms together,
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Then blow into them,
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And recite into them:
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“Say: He is Allah, the One!” (112:1)
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"Say, 'I seek refuge in the Lord of daybreak,'"
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And "Say, 'I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind.'"
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Then he would wipe with them as much of his body as he could,
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Starting with his head and his face,
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And the front of his body.
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He would do this three times.
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In this hadith,
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It is mentioned that the Prophet, peace be upon him,
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Whenever he returned to his bed and entered it,
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Would remember Allah, the Exalted, in a specific manner,
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Which we shall mention.
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Her saying, "Every night,"
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Indicates his complete consistency in this remembrance,
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To the extent that the Prophet, peace be upon him,
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During his final illness,
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When he was burdened and overcome by exhaustion,
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Would command 'A'ishah, may Allah be pleased with her,
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To do that for him,
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Out of care for this blessed remembrance.
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The intended remembrance
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Is cupping his palms together,
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By joining one palm to the other,
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While keeping them and their fingers pressed together,
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Then reciting into them and blowing,
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“Say: He is Allah, the One!” (112:1)
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And the two chapters of refuge (al-Mu'awwidhatayn).
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Then he would wipe with them as much of his body as he could,
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Starting with his head and his face,
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And the front of his body and the back.
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He would attempt to cover the entire body
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By wiping with his palms.
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For in a wording of the hadith in the Sahih,
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"And whatever his hands could reach of his body."
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He would do that three times.
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This wiping contains a blessing for the body,
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As it provides protection from the devil,
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So he cannot approach him from any direction,
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Because he is fortified by these verses.
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It also contains protection from vermin
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And harmful insects.
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On the authority of Ibn 'Abbas, may Allah be pleased with both of them,
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That the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him,
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Slept until he breathed heavily (snored).
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And he used to breathe heavily when he slept.
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Then Bilal came to him and informed him of the prayer,
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So he stood up and prayed without performing wudu'.
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The hadith contains a story.
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In this hadith, Ibn 'Abbas, may Allah be pleased with both of them, mentions
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That the Prophet, peace be upon him,
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Slept until he breathed heavily.
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And he used to breathe heavily when he slept.
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The "heavy breathing" here is a sound emitted by the sleeper,
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By which it is known that he is deeply asleep.
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And his saying,
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"Then Bilal came to him and informed him of the prayer,"
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Meaning, he notified him and called him to prayer.
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And his saying, "So he stood up and prayed,"
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"And did not perform wudu'," the scholars said:
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This is one of his specific characteristics, peace be upon him.
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For the Prophet, peace be upon him,
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His eyes would sleep, but his heart would not sleep.
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So he was like one who is awake,
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If anything had issued from him, he would have felt it.
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And his saying, "The hadith contains a story,"
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He refers to what is narrated in the two Sahih collections,
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From the hadith of Ibn 'Abbas, may Allah be pleased with both of them,
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Who said: I spent the night at the house of Maymunah,
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Then the Prophet, peace be upon him, stood up,
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Relieved himself, washed his face,
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And his hands, then slept, then stood up,
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Came to the water skin, untied
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Its strap, and performed wudu',
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A wudu' between two wudu's,
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Then prayed. I stood up and stretched,
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Disliking that he should see that I was watching him,
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So I performed wudu'.
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He stood to pray, and I stood to his left,
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So he took hold of my ear and turned me
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To his right. His prayer was completed
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At thirteen rak'ahs.
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Then he lay down and slept until he breathed heavily,
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And he used to breathe heavily when he slept.
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Then Bilal informed him of the prayer,
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So he prayed and did not perform wudu'.
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On the authority of Anas Ibn Malik, may Allah be pleased with him,
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That the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him,
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Whenever he retired to his bed, would say:
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"Praise be to Allah who fed us,
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And gave us drink, and sufficed us,
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And sheltered us; for how many are there who have
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No one to suffice them and no one to shelter them."
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This hadith mentions the supplication at the time of sleep,
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Which is saying, "Praise be to Allah
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Who fed us and gave us drink,"
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Meaning: Praise be to Allah who favored us with food,
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By which the body is nourished,
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And favored us with drink,
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By which quenching and the removal of thirst are achieved.
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He mentioned them at the time of sleep
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Because life is not sustained except by them.
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And his saying, "And sufficed us,"
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From sufficiency,
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Meaning: He warded off from us the evil of His creation,
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And protected us from the harm of calamities and aggressors,
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And sufficed us in the matters we are concerned about
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And strive to attain.
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And his saying, "And sheltered us,"
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Meaning: He favored us with shelter in a dwelling we inhabit,
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Which protects us from heat and cold,
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And in which we shield our families.
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And his saying, "For how many are there who have no one to suffice them and no one to shelter them,"
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Meaning: Many of Allah's creation
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Allah does not suffice them against the evil of the wicked,
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Nor does He provide them with a dwelling,
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Rather, He leaves them to suffer in the deserts
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From cold and heat.
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And our state was not like the state of the beasts either,
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Which sleep scattered in the open,
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Meaning, many of them are like that.
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In this supplication at the time of sleep,
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There is praise for Allah, the Almighty and Majestic,
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And thanking Him, the Glorified, for His abundant blessings,
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The continuity of His grace and giving,
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His generous gifts, and the vastness of His benevolence.
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And He, the Glorified, is worthy of praise and commendation.
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On the authority of Abu Qatadah, may Allah be pleased with him,
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That the Prophet, peace be upon him,
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Whenever he would rest at night,
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Would lie on his right side,
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And if he rested shortly before dawn,
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He would raise his forearm and place his head on his palm.
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In this hadith,
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It is mentioned that the Prophet, peace be upon him,
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Whenever he would rest at night,
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He would lie down on his right side.
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"Ta'ris" refers to a traveler stopping to rest.
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The intended meaning is that the Prophet, peace be upon him,
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when he would retire to his bed at night,
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and there was ample time for rest,
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he would sleep on his right side.
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Regarding his statement,
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"And if he stopped to rest shortly before dawn,"
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he would prop up his forearm and rest his head on his palm.
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This means that if he needed to sleep
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shortly before dawn when time was short,
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the Prophet, peace be upon him, would raise
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his forearm so that it remained upright,
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and he would place his head upon his palm,
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out of his concern, peace be upon him,
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for the dawn prayer and his attentiveness toward it.
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For when a person sleeps in this position,
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he does not fall into a deep sleep.
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Ibn al-Jawzi, may Allah have mercy on him, said:
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"He only did this at the end of the night
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for fear that sleep might overcome him."
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Al-Qari, may Allah have mercy on him, said:
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"Perhaps the wisdom behind it was to teach his Ummah,
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so that sleep would not weigh heavily upon them,
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causing them to miss the dawn prayer at its proper time."
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The hadith indicates the permissibility of sleeping shortly before
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the time for prayer begins,
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for one who knows that he will wake up,
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or who has someone to wake him.
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A benefit:
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Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy on him, said:
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"Whoever contemplates his sleep and wakefulness,
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peace be upon him,
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will find it to be the most balanced sleep,
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and the most beneficial for the body, the limbs, and one's faculties.
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He would sleep in the first part of the night,
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and wake up at the beginning of the second half,
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then he would rise, use the siwak,
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perform wudu, and pray what Allah had decreed for him.
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Thus, the body, the limbs, and the faculties would receive
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their share of sleep and rest,
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and their share of spiritual exercise, along with an abundance of reward.
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This is the pinnacle of well-being for the heart and the body,
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in both this world and the hereafter.
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He would not take from sleep
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more than the amount needed,
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nor would he deprive himself of the amount he required.
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He would do so in the most perfect manner;
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he would sleep when the need arose,
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and place his hand under his right side,
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remembering Allah until his eyes grew heavy,
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without his body being full of food and drink,
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nor lying directly on the ground,
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nor using elevated bedding.
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Rather, he had a mattress made of leather,
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stuffed with palm fibers.
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He would lie on a pillow,
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and sometimes place his hand under his cheek."
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His words conclude here.
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Thus, the Prophetic guidance regarding sleep
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came as a complete and comprehensive guidance,
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assisting in the elevation of the soul and the health of the body.
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The hadith has more to follow, if Allah wills.
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And Allah knows best.
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May Allah send peace and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad,
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and upon all his family and companions.