Is there a prayer (supplication) for prostration of thanking?
Dear Brother / Sister,
Shukr (thanking) means to know, mention and praise the one that gives boons. Prostration of thanking is a prostration that is made like prostration of tilawah (reading) by turning toward the qiblah and uttering takbir.
According to a narration from Abu Bakra,
"When Hz. Prophet (pbuh) received some very good news or when he was given a glad tiding, he would prostrate."(Abu Dawud, Jihad, 162; Tirmidhi, Siyar 24)
Prostration of thanking is mustahab but it is makruh to make it after a prayer. For, those who do not know about it may think that it is part of the prayer. All permissible deeds that can cause such misunderstanding are makruh. It is necessary to make prostration of thanking at times other than the times of karahah. (Ibn Abidin, Raddul-Muhtar, Egypt n.d., I, 344, 731; ash-Shurunbulali az-Zubab, p. 85 vd.).
The narrator Sa'd Ibn Abi Waqqas said: We went out of Madinah with the Messenger of Allah (pbuh). We wanted to go to Madinah. When we were near Azwara, he raised his hands, made supplication to Allah and prostrated. He remained a long time in prostration. Then he stood up, raised his hands and remained like that. Then, he prostrated again. He prostrated like that three times. Then, he said,
"I begged my Lord and made intercession for my people, and He gave me a third of my people; so, I prostrated myself in gratitude to my Lord. Then I raised my head and begged my Lord for my people, and He gave me a third of my people; so, I prostrated myself in gratitude to my Lord. Then I raised my head and begged my Lord for my people and He gave me the remaining third; so, I prostrated myself in gratitude to my Lord." [Abu Dawud, Jihad 174, (2775)]
The narrator Abdullah Ibn Ghannam al-Bayadi said: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said,
"If anyone says in the morning: ‘O Allah! Whatever favor has come to me, it comes from Thee alone Who has no partner; to Thee praise is due and thanksgiving’, he will have expressed full thanksgiving for the day; and if anyone says the same in the evening, he will have expressed full thanksgiving for the night." [Abu Dawud, Adab 110, (5073)]
We do not know a special supplication for prostration of thanking. However, the supplications for thanking can be said in prostration or after prostration.
Questions on Islam
- Is it appropriate to prostrate outside prayer and to pray in prostration?
- What does "Prayer is the Ascension (Miraj) of the believer" mean?
- Is it possible to say prayers (duas) in a different language during prostration (sajdah)?
- What is the criterion for dua (supplication) in prostration? Is it permissible to pray for something worldly in prostration or to say something other than "subhana rabbiyal a'la"? Is prayer invalidated if something else is said?
- Is there a prayer called tasbih prayer? Is the hadith mentioning that prayer sound?
- What is the length of sajdah (prostration) in prayer? They say it is necessary to remain in prostration long enough to say, "Lailahaillallah"; I sometimes think I do not remain long enough.
- How did Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) practice his prayers?
- How should the position of prostration be? Is it necessary to bend the body fully or is it enough to keep a bit clear?
- Is “Every prostration will elevate you one degree and will delete one of your sins” a hadith?
- What is the wisdom behind the acts in the prayer?
