Imaam Ibn Hajar Al-‘Asqalaani – rahimahullaah – said:
It is reported from Ibn Umar radiyallaahu anhu- who said – The Messenger of Allah -salallaahu alayhi wasallam does not fail to say these words in the morning and in the evening:
اللهم، إني أسألك العافية في ديني ودنياي، وأهلي ومالي، اللهم استر عوراتي، وآمن روعاتي، واحفظني من بين يدي
ومن خلفي، وعن يميني، وعن شمالي، ومن فوقي، وأعوذ بعظمتك أن أغتال من تحتي
Meaning: “Oh Allah! I ask you for well-being in my religious and worldly affairs, and my family and my wealth. O Allah! Cover my secrecy and grant security to my fears, and protect me from before me, and from my behind, from my right and from my left and from above me, And I seek refuge by Your greatness lest I may be swallowed up from my beneath.”
Transmitted and recorded by Imaam An-Nasaa’i in his “Sunan”#7970. Shaykh Al-Albaani declared it as Sahih in “Sahihu Ibn Majar.”
COMMENTARY
The hadith shows the importance of the following:
♦ It indicates that the Messenger Salallaahu alayhi wasallam never failed to say the above Dua’ in the morning and in the evening.
♦ It shows the importance of the Dua’.
♦ It encourages one to be saying the Dua’ in the morning and in the evening.
Allaahu A’alam!
Baarakallaahu feekum!
