How our Prophet (Pbuh) slept at night and What should we do when we go to bed at night?
Dear Brother / Sister,
“The Prophet recited the following prayer when he went to bed in order to sleep: ‘Allahumma bi’smika amutu ve ahya’ (O my Lord, I sleep and wake up with your name); and when he woke up, he prayed as follows: ‘Alhamdulillah alladhi ahyana ba’da amatana ve ilayh an- nushur’ (All praise be to Allah who wakens us after we have slept and to whom we will return.) (Shamal Shareef/281)
Getting up for the tahajjud prayer (voluntary salat (prayer) that is done any time at night between Salat al-Isha and Salat al-Fajr) after sleeping for some time is sunnah (act and deeds of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)). It is a practice of the virtuous persons. That salat will be in the form of light in the grave. When someone wakes up, he should not put his hands inside a bowl or plate before washing his hands three times. (Ramuz, V. 1/30-2)
He lay down on his right side while lying down. One should not lie facedown while lying down. The Prophet (pbuh) has forbidden that kind of lying. The Prophet woke a person up who was lying down like that and told him “That way of lying is a kind of lying which Allah does not like.” (Abu Dawud, Adab: 95)
Questions on Islam
- Will you give information about manners of sleeping? Will you give information about manners of lying face down and sleeping? Is lying face down a deed that was forbidden by the Sunnah?
- Is it permissible to say prayers or read the Quran while lying down on a place or in bed?
- Is it sin to sleep by lying face down? What are the manners of sleeping?
- What is the decree about the legs facing the qiblah while sleeping? Should we sleep in a way that our heads face the qiblah? What are the manners of sleeping?
- Did the Prophet tell his Companions not to chat after the night prayer and to go to sleep?
- How was the sleeping pattern of the Prophet (pbuh)?
- Will you give information about the prayers to be said when one gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night?
- Is it Sunnah to eat a meal before going to bed?
- When does the time period for tahajjud prayer start? Can it be performed immediately after the night prayer (isha)? Is it appropriate to delay the night prayer and perform tahhajud prayer immediately after the night prayer?
- Is there a drawback in terms of health and religion to sleep after the morning prayer and between the afternoon and evening prayer (faylula, ghaylula and qaylula)?
