After Every Prayer: What the Prophet ﷺ Used to Say — the Sahih Adhkar after Salah

About this video

What did the Prophet (peace be upon him) say after each prayer? This calm, sourced explainer follows the sahih reports in order: seeking forgiveness three times and 'O Allah, You are Peace', the words al-Mughirah ibn Shu'bah sent in a letter, the glorifications he taught the poor Companions — thirty-three each, completing a hundred — and the other counts in sahih hadith, Mu'adh's du'a, the surahs of refuge, Ayat al-Kursi with its honest status, and the du'a after Fajr. It also checks one popular after-Maghrib line that is weak. Framing is drawn, with attribution, from Ibn Kathir, Ibn Hajar and Maulana Maududi's Tafhim al-Qur'an, with Mishkat al-Masabih, Riyad as-Salihin, Bulugh al-Maram and al-Adab al-Mufrad used as finding aids.

Chapters

1. 0:00After the salam
2. 0:47When the prayer is done
3. 1:06First: forgiveness, then peace
4. 1:36Kept in a letter
5. 3:01The answer to the poor
6. 3:27What happened next
7. 3:57“After the prostrations”
8. 4:22Completing the hundred
9. 4:52Why this order?
10. 5:13More than one count
11. 6:23Easy, yet few keep it
12. 7:32“By Allah, I love you”
13. 7:56The surahs of refuge
14. 8:51Ayat al-Kursi: its honest status
15. 9:54After Fajr
16. 10:15Honesty note: a popular line
17. 10:59Recap
18. 11:14After your next prayer

Sources in this video

• Qur'an 4:103, 50:40, 2:255, 2:201, 113:1–5, 114:1–6
• Sahih Muslim 591, 594, 595 (sequel: Abu Salih's report, mursal), 596, 597
• Sahih al-Bukhari 843, 844, 4852, 6329
• Sunan Abi Dawud 1522, 1523, 5065 (Sahih, al-Albani)
• Sunan Ibn Majah 925 (Sahih, Darussalam)
• Bulugh al-Maram 2/220: an-Nasa'i, as-Sunan al-Kubra 9848 (Sahih, Ibn Hibban)
• Sunan Abi Dawud 5079 (Da'if, al-Albani — discussed as weak)
• Tafsir Ibn Kathir on 4:103, 2:199, 50:40
• Ibn Hajar, Fath al-Bari 2/382–386
• Tafhim al-Qur'an, Surah 50 n.51 (Maududi)