The Shaykh's clarification that it is not permissible to add unauthenticated additions to the prescribed dhikr, including the addition: "You do not break Your promise."

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The Shaykh : Perhaps you remember that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him:

When you go to bed, say: O Allah, I have submitted my self to You, and I have directed my face to You, and I have entrusted my affair to You, and I have cast my back upon You, seeking no refuge and no escape from You except to You. I believe in Your Book which You revealed and in Your Prophet whom You sent.

إذا أخذت مضجعك فقل: اللهم إني أسلمتُ نفسي إليك ووجهت وجهي إليك، وفوضت أمري إليك، وألجات ظهري إليك، لا ملجأ ولا منجى منك إلا إليك، آمنتُ بكتابك الذي أنزلت وبنبيك الذي أرسلتَ

And because of al-Bara' (may Allah be pleased with him)'s eagerness to memorize this recitation from the mouth of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), he repeated it before him, but when he reached the end, he made a mistake and said:

And in Your Messenger whom You sent. So he said to him (peace and blessings be upon him): No, but in Your Prophet whom You sent.

وبرسولك الذي أرسلت، فقال له -عليه الصلاة والسلام-: لا، ونبيك الذي أرسلت

In al-Tirmidhi's narration:

That he struck his chest and said: No, but in Your Prophet whom You sent.

أنه ضرب صدره وقال: لا، وبنبيك الذي أرسلت

: This hadith is explicit that the recitations are based on the Prophet's words, so it is not permissible to substitute one word for another in them, so how is it permissible to add to them?!
If the matter is so, and it is so without doubt or ambiguity, then it is not permissible for us, when we supplicate for the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and say:

O Allah, the Lord of this complete call and of this prayer, which is going to be established! Give Muhammad Al-Wasila and Al-Fadila and raise him to Al-Maqam-al-Mahmud which You have promised him

اللهم رب هذه الدعوة التامة والصلاة القائمة، آت محمدًا الوسيلة والفضيلة وابعثه مقامًا محمودًا الذي وعدته

Sahih al-Bukhari 4719

, to add from ourselves:

You do not break Your promise

إنك لا تخلف الميعاد

Muwatta Malik 20:132

, even if it is a verse in the Noble Qur'an, but as long as it is not authenticated from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), adding to this hadith is not permissible. And our saying that it does not contradict in meaning, if we understand what is said in some lands, and this saying is correct: "The one who adds is the brother of the one who omits", so just as it is not permissible to omit from a recitation, it is not permissible to add to it except with a correct text. And this was the discussion that this addition only came in *Sunan al-Bayhaqi* and through a trustworthy narrator, but the trustworthy ones we mentioned earlier, or at least recalled earlier, contradicted him, namely Imam Ahmad and Imam al-Bukhari, who narrated the hadith without this addition. So it cannot be said here: "It is an addition by a trustworthy narrator that does not contradict the narrations of the trustworthy ones," because the contradiction, even if it is by adding a word, does not change the ruling, but it changes the ruling because the addition is not permissible.

The questioner : They are ten narrators who narrated it with this wording without the addition, and Muhammad ibn 'Awf al-Tai, or Nu'aym, is the one who added it only. I say this if Allah wills?

The Shaykh : I did not understand you?

The questioner : I say this in support of your statement.

The Shaykh : It is this, without doubt, because it would be anomalous in a stronger and stronger way.

Source alathar.net

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