Topics: Manners

Essential Etiquettes of Going to Sleep in Islam

Islamic Etiquettes for a Peaceful Sleep: Purity, Position, and Prayer

From the etiquettes of going to sleep, we should:

Be in a state of purity: “If you come to your bed, then perform Wudoo’.”

● {صحيح البخاري كتاب الأدعية ٦٣١١، صحيح مسلم كتاب ذكرى الأدعية التوبة ٢٧١٠}

Sleep on our right side:
“…. Then lie down on your right side.”

● {صحيح البخاري كتاب الأدعية ٦٣١١، صحيح مسلم كتاب ذكرى الأدعية التوبة ٢٧١٠}

Place the right hand under the right cheek:

“When he ﷺ went to sleep, he placed his right hand under his right cheek.”

● {صحيح البخاري كتاب الأدعية ٦٣١٤، صحيح مسلم كتاب ذكرى الأدعية التوبة ٥٠٤٥}

Dust the bed:

“When one of you goes to bed, let him dust the bed because he does not know what comes into it before or after him.”

● {صحيح البخاري كتاب الأدعية ٦٣٢٠، صحيح مسلم كتاب ذكرى الأدعية التوبة ٢٧١٤}

Adhkār Before Sleeping:

قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم : من قرأ بالآيتين من آخر سورة البقرة ‏في ليلة كفتاه.

The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: “Whoever recites the last two verses of Sūrah al-Baqarah at night, they will suffice him.”

● [رواه البخاري ومسلم]

Ibn al-Qayyim Raḥimahullāh said: “Suffice him for any evil that may harm him.”

 ● [الوابل الصيب ١٣٢]

‘Ā`ishah رضي الله عنها reported: “The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ would get ready for sleep, he would blow into his hands, recite the two chapters of refuge (Sūrah al-Falaq and Sūrah an-Nās), and he would wipe his hands over his body.”

● [صحيح البخاري ٥٩٦٠، إسناده صحيح]

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