A supplication equivalent to making dhikr all day and all night!

Upon the authority of Abu Umaamah who said: The Prophet saw me and I was moving my lips so he said:

“What are you saying Oh Abu Umaamah?

I said: “I am remembering Allah” so he said: “Should I not point you towards that which is more abundant than you remembering Allah all night and day?

You should say:

• الحَمْدُ لِلهِ عَدَدَ ما خَلَق – Al Hamdulillāh ‘adada maa khalaq – (All Praise is due to Allah, praises like the number of everything he has created)

• الحَمْدُ لِله مِلْءَ ما خَلَق – Al Hamdulillāh Mil’a¹ maa khalaq (All praise is due to Allah, praises filling everything he has created)

• الحَمْدُ لِله عَدَدَ ما في السَماواتِ وما في الأَرْض – Al Hamdulillāh ‘adada maa fis Samaawaati wa maafil Ard – (All praise is due to Allah, praises like the number of everything in the heavens and everything on earth)

• الحَمْدُ لِله عَدَدَ ما أَحْصَى كِتَابُهُ – Al Hamdulillāh ‘adada maa ahsaa kitaabuhu (All praise is due to Allah, praises like the number of that which is recorded in his book)

• الحَمْدُ لِله مِلْءَ ما أَحْصَى كِتَابُهُ – Al Hamdulillāh mil’a maa ahsaa kitaabuhu (All praise is due to Allah, praises filling everything recorded by his book)

• الحَمْدُ لِله عَدَدَ كُلِ شَيْءٍ – Al Hamdulillāh ‘adada kulli shay (All praise is due to Allah, praises like the number of everything)

• الحَمْدُ لِله مِلْءَ كُلِ شَيْءٍ – Al Hamdulillāh mil’a kulli shay (All praise is due to Allah, praises filling the number of everything)

Then make tasbeeh (i.e. say Subhanallāh) in a like manner.

In a version collected by At Tabaraani in Mu’jam Al Kabeer there is the additional wording at the end of the hadeeth after the mention of tasbeeh “..and make takbeer in a like manner” (Declared ‘Sahīh‘ by Shaikh Albaani in ‘Sahīh At Targheeb: 2/118)

Then he said: “Teach this to your offspring after you”

(Collected by Imām Ahmad in his Musnad and declared ‘Sahīh’ By Sh Albāni in Sahīh Al jāmi’ (1615) and ‘As Sahīhah’ (2578)

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1. The statement mil’a مِلْءَ literally means to fill something, when it occurs in supplications relating to extolling the praise of Allah, it is a reference to a great abundance of that praise. Al Khataabi mentioned: “It is an example used to make a reality easier to comprehend. The intent is abundance in number such that if one were to perceive the aforementioned thing as a tangible body then it would fill it..” (See Qurtubi’s ‘Ikmaal Al Mu’mil‘ (2/391) ↩︎