Explanation of the Opening Supplications in Prayer

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Question:
We received this question, Shaykh Salih. The brother says: I have been using one specific opening supplication in my prayer for all my past years. Are there specific opening supplications for the prayer?

Answer:
Yes, multiple opening supplications have been reported in the prayer, and the Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah collected them in one of his treatises, completing them or making them concise

Glorious You are O Allah, and with Your praise, and blessed is Your Name, and exalted is Your majesty, and none has the right to be worshipped but You.

سبحانك اللهم وبحمدك وتبارك اسمك وتعالى جدك ولا إله غيرك

Jami` at-Tirmidhi 243Hasan (Darussalam)

. As for the night prayer, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) would open with this supplication: O Allah, Lord of Jibril, Mikail, and Israfil

Say, "O Allah, Creator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, You will judge between your servants concerning that over which they used to differ."

فَاطِرَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ عَالِمَ الْغَيْبِ وَالشَّهَادَةِ أَنتَ تَحْكُمُ بَيْنَ عِبَادِكَ فِي مَا كَانُوا فِيهِ يَخْتَلِفُونَ

[Az-Zumar 39:46]

guide me to the truth, guide me to that which I am in disagreement about from the truth by Your permission, for You guide whom You will to a straight path. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah bless you.

Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، برنامج (فتاوى) (174) لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان بتاريخ [1440-03-21] - كبار العلماء — youtube.com (29:02)

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