Types of Opening Supplications in Prayer

Question:
And may Allah benefit you through you. A questioner says: I was in prayer, and there was a man next to me. When we said the takbir to begin the prayer, he did not recite the opening supplication that begins with "Subhanaka Allahumma wa bihamdika," but instead he said, "O Allah, distance me from my sins as You have distanced the East from the West." Are there different types of opening supplications?

Answer:
The types of opening supplications are numerous, and all of them are established from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). The Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah wrote an independent treatise on the subject, in which he collected the authentic types of opening supplications reported from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). There is an opening supplication for the night prayer and one for the five daily prayers. The closest and most comprehensive of them is: "Subhanaka Allahumma wa bihamdika, wa tabarakasmuka, wa ta'ala jadduka, wa la ilaha ghayruk." Yes.

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