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3410. 'Abdullāh bin 'Amr [may Allāh be pleased with both of them] said: "The Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) said: 'There are two characteristics over which a Muslim man does not guard, except that he enters Paradise. And indeed, they are easy, and those who act upon them are few: He glorifies Allāh at the end of every prayer ten times (saying Subhān Allāh) and praises Him ten times saying (Al-Hamdulillah) and extols His greatness ten times
(saying Allāhu Akbar).”
He said: “And I have seen the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ counting them with his hand. He said: ‘So this is one hundred and fifty with the tongue, and one thousand and five hundred on the Scale. When you go to bed, you glorify Him, extol His greatness, and praise Him a hundred times, so this is one hundred with the tongue and one thousand on the Scale. Which of you performs two thousand and five hundred evil deeds in a single day and night?’ They said: ‘How could we not guard over them?’ He said: ‘Shaitān comes to one of you when he is in his Ṣalāt and says: “Remember such and such, remember such and such” until he turns and perhaps he will not do it.[1] And he comes to him and he is lying down and makes him sleepy until he falls asleep.”’ (Hasan)
[Abū ‘Eisā said:] This Hadīth is Hasan Ṣaḥīḥ. Shu‘bah and Ath-Thawrī reported this Hadīth from ‘Aṭā’ bin As-Sā‘ib, and Al-A‘mash reported this Hadīth from ‘Aṭā’ bin As-Sā‘ib in shorter form. There are narrations on this topic from Zaid bin Thābit, Anas, and Ibn ‘Abbās [may Allāh be pleased with him].
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[1] Meaning so that he might lose count of what he has prayed.
Commentary
Every virtuous deed works as expiation of sins, and the reward of every virtue is multiplied ten times. Saying 'Subhān Allāh' ten times, 'Al-Humdulillāh' ten times and 'Allāhu Akbar' ten times after every prayer makes it thirty times, and five times a day make one hundred and fifty 150 \times 10 = 1500, before going to sleep at night add one hundred which means 100 \times 10 = 1000, in this way it will be 2500 altogether and these will become an expiation for sins.
