The Opening Supplication in the Night Prayer
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Question:
The questioner says: It is narrated by Ibn 'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), when he began, would say, "O Allah, You are the Good One in the heavens and the earth." Did he make this supplication before or after the recitation of the congregation?
Answer:
This is in the opening supplication. This is in the opening supplication. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), when he said the takbir of ihram in the night prayer, would make an opening supplication. The types of opening supplications he used to say are narrated and preserved. There is a treatise by Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) on the types of opening supplications the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say, and it is in his Majmu' al-Fatawa. You should refer to it. Yes.
The questioner says: It is narrated by Ibn 'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), when he began, would say, "O Allah, You are the Good One in the heavens and the earth." Did he make this supplication before or after the recitation of the congregation?
Answer:
This is in the opening supplication. This is in the opening supplication. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), when he said the takbir of ihram in the night prayer, would make an opening supplication. The types of opening supplications he used to say are narrated and preserved. There is a treatise by Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) on the types of opening supplications the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say, and it is in his Majmu' al-Fatawa. You should refer to it. Yes.
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، باب الذكر والدعاء — islamhouse.com (1:12:21)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.