Wird al-Sabah wal-Masa min al-Kitab wal-Sunna
- Author died
- 1440 AH
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Wird al-Sabah wal-Masa min al-Kitab wal-Sunna (The Morning and Evening Litany from the Book and the Sunna) is a concise devotional treatise compiled by Saeed bin Wahf al-Qahtani (d. 1440 AH / 2018 CE), collecting canonical morning and evening supplications and Quranic verses with their textual variants and stated virtues.
Composition and Purpose
Al-Qahtani completed the work during the forenoon of Thursday, 20 Rajab 1415 AH (1994 CE). He extracted and compiled the morning and evening remembrances directly from his earlier work, Hisn al-Muslim (Fortress of the Muslim), producing a dedicated booklet for the benefit of the general Muslim public. In the preface, the author noted that he vocalized the text with vowel marks, detailed the religious virtue and source referencing (takhrij) of each remembrance, and placed alternative wordings designated specifically for the evening in the page footnotes.
Content and Method
The treatise begins with an introductory overview of the spiritual benefits of remembrance (dhikr), citing Ibn al-Qayyim's enumeration of around one hundred benefits, of which al-Qahtani outlines several dozen, including repelling the devil, pleasing God, dispelling sorrow, bringing joy, strengthening the heart and body, and providing safety from divine punishment.
The core of the booklet consists of twenty-four numbered items comprising Quranic passages and prophetic invocations:
- Quranic passages: Ayat al-Kursi (Quran 2:255) and the three short surahs (Surat al-Ikhlas, Surat al-Falaq, and Surat al-Nas), to be recited three times.
- Daily supplications: Sayyid al-Istighfar (the master supplication for seeking forgiveness), prayers for bodily and spiritual well-being, expressions of refuge from grief, debt, disbelief, and the punishment of the grave, and declarations of reliance upon God.
- Repeated formulas of praise and devotion: Repeating سُبْحَانَ اللهِ وَبِحَمْدِهِ ("Glory be to Allah and praise be to Him") one hundred times, reciting the declaration of divine oneness (tahlil) ten or one hundred times, seeking forgiveness (istighfar) one hundred times daily, and invoking blessings upon the Prophet ﷺ ten times.
In the footnotes, al-Qahtani references hadith compilations such as the Sahihs of al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Sunan collections, and Musnad Ahmad, frequently citing contemporary grading assessments by scholars such as Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz and Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani.
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