English Translation

Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Atsh told us: Ja'far - meaning Ibn Sulayman - told us, from Ali ibn Ali al-Yashkuri, from Abu al-Mutawakkil al-Naji, from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, who said: When the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, rose at night and opened his prayer and said the takbir, he would say, "Glory be to You, O Allah, and praise be to You; blessed is Your name, and exalted is Your majesty, and there is no god but You." Then he would say, "There is no god but Allah," three times. Then he would say, "I seek refuge in Allah, the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing, from the accursed Satan, from his whispered insinuations and his puffing up with pride." Then he would say, "Allah is greatest," three times. Then he would say, "I seek refuge in Allah, the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing, from the accursed Satan, from his whispered insinuations, his puffing up with pride, and his poetry."