With the Hadith
When you come to your bed
We greet you, dear listeners, everywhere, in a new episode of your program: With the Hadith, and we begin with the best greeting, peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.
Saad bin Ubaidah said: Al-Baraa bin Azeb, may God be pleased with them, told me:
The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said to me: "When you come to your bed, perform ablution as you would for prayer, then lie on your right side and say: O God, I have submitted myself to You, entrusted my affairs to You, and turned my back to You, out of fear and desire for You. There is no refuge or escape from You except to You. I believe in Your Book which You have revealed and in Your Prophet whom You have sent. If you die, you will die in a state of purity, so make these the last words you say." I said: I will memorize them and (say) "and by Your Messenger whom You sent?" He said: No, (say) "and by Your Prophet whom You sent."
It came in Fath al-Bari in explaining Sahih al-Bukhari
His saying (When you come to your bed)
That is, if you want to lie down.
His saying (perform ablution as you would for prayer)
The command here is for recommendation. And it has benefits: including that he spends the night in purity so that death does not suddenly take him and he is in a complete state, and it is taken from it the recommendation to prepare for death by purifying the heart because it is more important than purifying the body.
His saying (then lie on your side)
That is, the side, and he specified the right side for benefits: including that it is faster to wake up, and including that the heart is related to the right side so it does not become heavy with sleep, and including that Ibn al-Jawzi said: This posture is what doctors have stated is better for the body, they said to start by lying on the right side for an hour then turn to the left because the first is a reason for the food to go down, and sleeping on the left digests because the liver includes the stomach.
His saying (And say: O God, I have submitted my face to You)
"I have submitted myself" It was said that the face and the self here mean the essence and the person, meaning I have submitted my essence and my person to You.
His saying (I have submitted)
That is, I have surrendered and submitted, and the meaning is I have made myself obedient to You, following Your judgment, as I have no power over its management, nor over bringing what benefits it to it, nor over repelling what harms it from it,
And His saying "and I entrust my affairs to You"
That is, I have put my trust in You in all my affairs
And His saying "and I have turned"
That is, I have relied in my affairs on You to help me with what benefits me; because whoever relies on something is strengthened by it and helped by it, and He specified the back because the custom has been that a person relies with his back on what he relies on,
And His saying "desire and fear for You"
That is, desire for Your support and reward, "and fear" that is, fear of Your anger and Your punishment.
His saying (there is no refuge or escape from You except to You)
Al-Tibi said: In the structure of this remembrance there are wonders that only the proficient among the people of eloquence know, so he indicated by his saying "I have submitted myself" that his limbs are obedient to God Almighty in His commands and prohibitions, and by his saying "I have directed my face" that his essence is sincere to Him, free from hypocrisy, and by his saying "I have entrusted my affairs" that his external and internal affairs are entrusted to Him, no one manages them but Him, and by his saying "I have turned my back" that after the entrusting he takes refuge in Him from what harms and hurts him from all causes. He said: And His saying desire and fear are منصوبان (accusative) for the object for which on the way of wrapping and publishing, that is, I entrust my affairs to You with desire and I turn my back to You with fear.
His saying (I believe in Your Book which You have revealed)
It is possible that he means by it the Quran, and it is possible that he means the genus name so it includes every book that was revealed.
His saying (If you die, you will die in a state of purity)
Ibn Battal and a group said: What is meant by purity here is the religion of Islam
Dear listeners:
In light of this honorable hadith, it is necessary to draw attention to the following points:
First: We must urge ourselves to act on this honorable hadith and adhere to supplication when sleeping.
Second: Constantly hold oneself accountable before going to sleep and get used to it. Ibn Umar used to say, “If you are in the evening, do not expect the morning, and if you are in the morning, do not expect the evening.”
Third: Our supplication (O God, I have submitted myself to You, entrusted my affairs to You, and turned my back to You, out of fear and desire for You. There is no refuge or escape from You except to You...) must not be just words that we utter without them passing our throats. Rather, we must be honest with God Almighty in what we say. So we are truly submitted ourselves to God Almighty, acting on His saying (Say, "Indeed, my prayer, my rites of sacrifice, my living and my dying are for Allah, Lord of the worlds"), so there is a difference between those who live on Islam, those who live by Islam, and those who live for Islam.
Dear listeners
Until we meet you with another prophetic hadith, we leave you in God’s care, and peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you
