Manners & Gatherings

Rabbanā wabʿath fīhim rasūlan minhum yatlū ʿalayhim āyātika wa yuʿallimuhumul-Kitāba wal-ḥikmata wa yuzakkīhim, innaka Antal-ʿAzīzul-Ḥakīm.

Our Lord, send among them a messenger from themselves who will recite to them Your verses and teach them the Book and wisdom and purify them. Indeed, You are the Exalted in Might, the Wise.

Said by Prophet Ibrahim ﷺ

[ Surah Al-Baqara 2:129 ]

Rabbi arinī kayfa tuḥyil-mawtā.

My Lord, show me how You give life to the dead.

Said by Prophet Ibrahim ﷺ

[ Surah Al-Baqara 2:260 ]

Samiʿnā wa aṭaʿnā, ghufrānaka Rabbanā wa ilaykal-maṣīr.

We hear and we obey. Grant us Your forgiveness, our Lord, and to You is the final return.

[ Surah Al-Baqara 2:285 ]

Rabbanā innaka jāmiʿun-nāsi li-yawmin lā rayba fīh, innallāha lā yukhliful-mīʿād.

Our Lord, You will gather the people for a Day about which there is no doubt. Indeed, Allah does not fail in His promise.

[ Surah Aal-i-Imraan 3:9 ]

Rabbanā innanā āmannā faghfir lanā dhunūbanā wa qinā ʿadhāban-nār.

Our Lord, we have believed, so forgive us our sins and protect us from the punishment of the Fire.

[ Surah Aal-i-Imraan 3:16 ]

Rabbanā āmannā bimā anzalta wattabaʿnar-Rasūla faktubnā maʿash-shāhidīn.

Our Lord, we have believed in what You revealed and we have followed the Messenger, so record us among the witnesses.

[ Surah Aal-i-Imraan 3:53 ]

Rabbanā innanā samiʿnā munādiyan yunādī lil-īmāni an āminū bi-Rabbikum fa-āmannā. Rabbanā faghfir lanā dhunūbanā wa kaffir ʿannā sayyi'ātinā wa tawaffanā maʿal-abrār.

Our Lord, we heard a caller calling to faith: 'Believe in your Lord', and we believed. Our Lord, so forgive us our sins, remove from us our misdeeds, and cause us to die among the righteous.

[ Surah Aal-i-Imraan 3:193 ]

Rabbanā āmannā faktubnā maʿash-shāhidīn.

Our Lord, we have believed, so register us among the witnesses.

[ Surah Al-Maaida 5:83 ]

Innī wajjahtu wajhiya lilladhī faṭaras-samāwāti wal-arḍa ḥanīfan wa mā anā minal-mushrikīn.

Indeed, I have turned my face toward He who created the heavens and the earth, inclining toward truth, and I am not of those who associate others with Allah.

Said by Prophet Ibrahim ﷺ

The Prophet ﷺ opened his night prayer with these words. (Sahih Muslim 771)

[ Surah Al-An'aam 6:79 ]

Inna ṣalātī wa nusukī wa maḥyāya wa mamātī lillāhi Rabbil-ʿālamīn. Lā sharīka lahu wa bidhālika umirtu wa anā awwalul-muslimīn.

Indeed, my prayer, my rites of sacrifice, my living and my dying are for Allah, Lord of the worlds. He has no partner. This I have been commanded, and I am the first of the Muslims.

[ Surah Al-An'aam 6:162-163 ]

Rabbighfir lī wa li'akhī wa adkhilnā fī raḥmatik, wa Anta arḥamur-rāḥimīn.

My Lord, forgive me and my brother and admit us into Your mercy, for You are the most merciful of the merciful.

Said by Prophet Musa ﷺ

[ Surah Al-A'raaf 7:151 ]

Rabbis-sijnu aḥabbu ilayya mimmā yadʿūnanī ilayh, wa illā taṣrif ʿannī kaydahunna aṣbu ilayhinna wa akun minal-jāhilīn.

My Lord, prison is more beloved to me than that to which they invite me. And if You do not turn their plot away from me, I may incline toward them and become of the ignorant.

Said by Prophet Yusuf ﷺ

[ Surah Yusuf 12:33 ]

Rabbir-ḥamhumā kamā rabbayānī ṣaghīrā.

My Lord, have mercy upon them as they raised me when I was small.

[ Surah Al-Israa 17:24 ]

Rabbi adkhilnī mudkhala ṣidqin wa akhrijnī mukhraja ṣidqin wajʿal lī min ladunka sulṭānan naṣīrā.

My Lord, cause me to enter a sound entrance and to exit a sound exit, and grant me from Yourself a supporting authority.

[ Surah Al-Israa 17:80 ]

Rabbi innī wahanal-ʿaẓmu minnī washtaʿalar-ra'su shayban wa lam akun biduʿā'ika Rabbi shaqiyyā. Wa innī khiftul-mawāliya min warā'ī wa kānatimra'atī ʿāqiran fahab lī min ladunka waliyyā. Yarithunī wa yarithu min āli Yaʿqūb, wajʿalhu Rabbi raḍiyyā.

My Lord, my bones have weakened and my head has filled with white hair, and never have I been unanswered in my supplication to You, my Lord. And I fear my relatives after me, and my wife is barren, so grant me from Yourself an heir who will inherit from me and inherit from the family of Yaʿqub. And make him, my Lord, pleasing to You.

Said by Prophet Zakariyya ﷺ

[ Surah Maryam 19:4-6 ]

Rabbi lā tadharnī fardan wa Anta khayrul-wārithīn.

My Lord, do not leave me alone, and You are the best of inheritors.

Said by Prophet Zakariyya ﷺ

[ Surah Al-Anbiyaa 21:89 ]

Rabbanā āmannā faghfir lanā warḥamnā wa Anta khayrur-rāḥimīn.

Our Lord, we have believed, so forgive us and have mercy upon us, and You are the best of the merciful.

[ Surah Al-Muminoon 23:109 ]

Rabbighfir warḥam wa Anta khayrur-rāḥimīn.

My Lord, forgive and have mercy, and You are the best of the merciful.

[ Surah Al-Muminoon 23:118 ]

Rabbanaghfir lanā wa li'ikhwāninal-ladhīna sabaqūnā bil-īmāni wa lā tajʿal fī qulūbinā ghillan lilladhīna āmanū, Rabbanā innaka Ra'ūfun Raḥīm.

Our Lord, forgive us and our brothers who preceded us in faith, and put no resentment in our hearts toward those who have believed. Our Lord, indeed You are Kind and Merciful.

[ Surah Al-Hashr 59:10 ]

When you sneeze , then say: Alḥamdulillāh Your companion should say : Yarḥamukallāh When someone says Yarḥamukallāh to you then you should say: Yahdīkumu ‘llāhu wa yuṣliḥu bālakum.

When you sneeze, then say: All praises and thanks are to Allah. Your companion should say: May Allah have mercy upon you. When someone says Yarḥamukallāh to you then you should say: May Allah guide you and set your affairs in order.

[ Al-Bukhari 7/125. Hisn al-Muslim 188 ]

Yahdīkumullāhu wa yuṣliḥu bālakum.

May Allah guide you and set your affairs in order

[ At-Tirmidhi 5/82, Ahmad 4/400, Abu Dawud 4/ 308. See also Al-Albani, Sahih At-Tirmidhi 2/354. Hisn al-Muslim 189 ]

A`ūdhu billāhi minash-Shayṭānir-rajīm.

I seek refuge in Allah from Satan the outcast.

[ Al-Bukhari 7/99, Muslim 4/2015. Hisn al-Muslim 193 ]

Ibn Umar (ra) said: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) used to repeat in a single sitting: Rabbigh’fir lī wa tub `alayy innaka antat-Tawwābu ‘l-Ghafūr.

Ibn Umar (ra) said: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) used to repeat in a single sitting: My Lord, forgive me, and accept my repentance, You are the Ever-Relenting, the All-Forgiving.

[ Sahih Ibn Majah 2/321. See also Al-Albani, Sahih At-Tirmidhi 3/153. Hisn al-Muslim 195 ]

Jazākallāhu khayra.

May Allah reward you with good.

[ At-Tirmidhi (no. 2035). See also Al-Albani, Sahih At-Tirmidhi 2/200 and Sahihul-Jami' (no. 6244). Hisn al-Muslim 198 ]

Aḥabbaka ‘lladhī aḥbabtanī lah.

May He for Whose sake you love me, love you.

[ Abu Dawud 4/333. Al-Albani graded it good in Sahih Abu Dawud 3/965. Hisn al-Muslim 200 ]

Bārakallāhu laka fī ahlika wa mālik.

May Allah bless you in your family and your property.

[ Al-Bukhari, cf. Al-Asqalani, Fathul-BAri 4/88. Hisn al-Muslim 201 ]

Wafīka bārakallāh.

And may Allah bless you.

[ Ibn As-Sunni, p. 138, (no. 278). See also Ibn Al-Qayyim, Al-Wdbil As-Sayyib, p. 304, with checking by Basheer Muhammad ?Uyoon. Hisn al-Muslim 204 ]

Allāhumma lā ṭayra illā ṭayruk, wa lā khayra illā khayruk, wa lā ilāha ghayruk.

O Allah there is no portent other than Your portent, no goodness other than Your goodness, and none worthy of worship other than You.

[ Ahmad 2/220, Ibn As-Sunni (no. 292). See also Al-Albani, Silsilatul-'Ahadlth As-Sahihah 3/54, (no. 1065). As for bodings of good, these used to please the Prophet (ﷺ) and so when he heard good words from someone, he used to say: "We have taken from you a good portent from your mouth," Abu Dawud, Ahmad. See also Al-Albani, Silsilatul-'Ahadith As-Sahihah 2/363, and it is with Abu Ash-Shaikh Al-Asfahani in 'Akhlaqun-Nabiyy, pg. 270. Hisn al-Muslim 205 ]

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The Prophet (ﷺ) said: "You shall not enter Paradise until you believe, and you have not believed until you love one another. Shall I tell you of something you can do to make you love one another? Spread the greetings of Salam (peace) amongst yourselves (i.e. between each other).

[ Muslim 1/74 and others. Hisn al-Muslim 224 ]

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Three characteristics, whoever combines them, has completed his faith: to be just, to spread greetings to all people and to spend (charitably) out of the little you have.

[ Al-Bukhari, cf. Al-Asqalani, Fathul-Bari 1/82 as a statement of the Companion 'Ammar (RA). Hisn al-Muslim 225 ]

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Abdullah bin Umar (RA) said: A man asked the Prophet (ﷺ), "What is the best act of Islam?" He said, "To feed others and to give greetings of Salam (peace) to those whom you know and to those whom you do not know."

[ Al-Bukhari, cf. Al-Asqalani, Fathul-Bari 1/55, Muslim 1/65. Hisn al-Muslim 226 ]

If one of the People of the Scripture (i.e. Christians and Jews) greets you, saying As-Salāmu `alaykum, then say (to him): Wa `alaykum.

If one of the People of the Scripture (i.e. Christians and Jews) greets you saying As-Salaamu alaykum, then say (to him): And upon you .

[ Al-Bukhari, cf. Al-Asqalani, Fathul-Bari 11/42, Muslim 4/1705. Hisn al-Muslim 227 ]

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When you hear the cock's crow, ask Allah for His favor upon you for surely it has seen an angel. When you hear the bray of a donkey, seek refuge in Allah from Satan, for surely it has seen a devil.

[ Al-Bukhari, cf. Al-Asqalani, Fathul-Bari 6/350, Muslim 4/2092. Hisn al-Muslim 228 ]

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When you hear a dog barking or a donkey braying in the night, then seek refuge in Allah from them, for surely they have seen what you see not.

[ Abu Dawud 4/327, Ahmad 3/306. Al-Albani graded it authentic in Sahih Abu Dawud 3/961. Hisn al-Muslim 229 ]

Allāhumma fa'ayyumā mu'minin sababtuhu faj`al dhālika lahu qurbatan ilayka yawma ‘l-qiyāmah.

O Allah, whomever of the believers I have abused, give him the reward of a sacrificial slaughter for it on the Day of Resurrection.

[ Al-Bukhari, cf. Al-Asqalani, Fathul-Bari 11/171, Muslim 4/2007. The wording in Muslim's report is: 'make it a purification for him and a source of mercy. Hisn al-Muslim 230 ]

If any of you praises his companion then let him say: Aḥsibu fulānan wallāhu ḥasībuh wa lā uzakkī `alallāhi aḥada.

If any of you praises his companion then let him say: I consider (such and such a person), and Allah is his Assessor, (meaning: and I cannot claim anyone to be pious before Allah) if you know of this (good character trait in the person) to be such and such (saying what he thinks is praiseworthy in that person).

[ Muslim 4/2296. Hisn al-Muslim 231 ]

Allāhumma lā tu'ākhidhnī bimā yaqūlūn, waghfir lī mā lā ya`lamūn [waj`alnī khayran mimmā yaẓunnūn].

O Allah, do not call me to account for what they say and forgive me for what they have no knowledge of [and make me better than they imagine].

[ Al-Bukhari, Al-'Adabul-Mufrad no. 761. See Al-Albani, Sahih Al-'Adabul-Mufrad (no. 585). The portion between brackets if from Al-Bayhaqi, Shu'ab Al-Iman 4/228, and comes another account. Hisn al-Muslim 232 ]

Bismillāh wallāhu Akbar [Allāhumma minka wa lak] Allāhumma taqabbal minnī.

With the Name of Allah, Allah is the Most Great! [O Allah, from You and to You.] O Allah, accept it from me.

[ Muslim 3/ 1557, Al-Bayhaqi 9/287. Hisn al-Muslim 246 ]

When night falls, restrain your children (from going out) because at such time the devils spread about. After a period of time has passed, let them be. Shut your doors and mention Allah’s name, for verily the devil does not open a shut door, tie up your water-skins and mention Allah’s name, cover your vessels with anything and mention Allah’s name and put out your lamps.

[ Al-Bukhari with Al-Fath 10/88 and Muslim 3/1595. Hisn al-Muslim 267 ]