Ahadith

Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: A servant is closest to his Lord when he is in prostration, so multiply your supplications in prostration (Muslim).

Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet would supplicate in his prostration: Allah forgive me all my sins small and great, first and last, overt and covert (Muslim).

Ayesha relates: One night I missed the Holy Prophet from his bed so I cast about and discovered that he was in bowing and prostration and was reciting: Holy art Thou and Thine is the Praise and there is none worthy of worship save Thee. One version has it: My hand came up against his feet while he was in prostration and his feet were erect and he was supplicating: Allah I seek the protection of Thy pleasure against Thy wrath and the protection of Thy forgiveness against Thy chastisement and Thy protection against Thyself. I have not the capacity to enumerate Thy Praise. Thou art as Thou hast described Thyself (Muslim).

Sa‘ad.ibn Abi Waqqas relates: We were with the Holy Prophet when he said: Would any of you have the strength to perform a thousand good deeds in a day? One of those present asked him: How might a thousand good deeds be performed? He answered: If one glorifies the Lord a hundred times he would be credited with a thousand good deeds or a thousand of his faults would be wiped out (Muslim).

This hadith is the same as No. 118.

Juwairiah bint Harith (wife of the Holy Prophet) relates that the Holy Prophet went out from her one morning after the dawn Prayer while she was still in her place where she had offered her Prayer and came back after the sun had risen and she was still sitting at her place, whereupon he said: Have you continued in the same condition in which I left you? She said: Yes. The Holy Prophet then said: After I left you, I recited four phrases three times. If they were weighed against that which you have said this morning they would prove weightier. They are: Holy is Allah and worthy of all Praise, as many times as the number of all His creation and according to His pleasure and corresponding to the weight of His throne and the number of His words (Muslim). Another version is: Holy is Allah the number of His creation, Holy is Allah according to His pleasure, Holy is Allah corresponding to the weight of his Throne, Holy is Allah the number of His words. Tirmidhi’s version is: Shall 1 teach you phrases which you might recite? Holy is Allah, the number of His creation, Holy is Allah the _ number of His creation, Holy is Allah the number of His creation; Holy is Allah according to His pleasure, Holy is Allah according to His pleasure, Holy is Allah according to His pleasure; Holy is Allah corresponding to the weight of His" Throne, Holy is Allah corresponding to the weight of His Throne, Holy is Allah corresponding to the weight of His Throne; Holy is Allah the number of His words, Holy is Allah the number of His words, Holy is Allah the number of His words.

Abu Musa Ash‘ari relates that the Holy Prophet said: The case of one who remembers his Lord and of one who does not remember his Lord is like that of the living and the dead (Bokhari). Muslim’s version is: The case of a house in which Allah is remembered, and of one in which Allah is not remembered is like that of the living and the dead.

Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: Allah, the Exalted, said: | am to a servant of Mine as he imagines Me to be. I am with him when he remembers Me. If he remembers Me in his mind I remember him in My mind; and if he remembers Me in company I remember him in better company (Bokhari and Muslim). (Al-A`raf 57, Al-Baqarah 188)

Abu Hurairah relates that the Holy Prophet said: The mufarridun will outstrip the rest. He was asked: Who are the mufarridun? He answered: The men who remember Allah much and the women who remember Allah much (Muslim). (Al-A`raf 57, Al-Baqarah 188)

Jabir relates that he heard the Holy Prophet say: The best remembrance of Allah is: There is none worthy of worship save Allah (Tirmidhi). (Al-A`raf 57, Al-Baqarah 188)