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حِصْنُ الْمُسْلِمِ

Fortress of the Muslim

Ḥiṣn al-Muslim — the supplications and remembrance of the Qur'an and Sunnah for every part of the day, compiled by Saʿīd ibn ʿAlī ibn Wahf al-Qaḥṭānī. deen2u English edition.

Fortress of the Muslim (Ḥiṣn al-Muslim) is a pocket collection of 267 supplications (duʿāʾ) and words of remembrance (dhikr), arranged in 132 chapters by the moment they are said — waking, prayer, morning and evening, sleep, travel, illness, hardship and more. Each one is given here in Arabic with transliteration, a new English translation made from the Arabic by deen2u, and its source.

CompilerSaʿīd ibn ʿAlī ibn Wahf al-Qaḥṭānī
Contents132 chapters · 267 readings
Sources checked241 readings matched in deen2u's collections
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All 132 chapters

Waking and dressing

  1. When waking up 4
  2. When putting on clothes 1
  3. When putting on new clothes 1
  4. For someone who has put on new clothes 2
  5. Before taking off clothes 1

The toilet and ablution

  1. Before entering the toilet 1
  2. After leaving the toilet 1
  3. Before ablution (wuḍūʾ) 1
  4. After completing ablution 3

Home and mosque

  1. When leaving the home 2
  2. When entering the home 1
  3. When going to the mosque 1
  4. When entering the mosque 1
  5. When leaving the mosque 1

The call to prayer and the prayer

  1. The call to prayer (adhān) 5
  2. Opening supplications of the prayer 6
  3. While bowing (rukūʿ) 5
  4. When rising from bowing 3
  5. While prostrating (sujūd) 7
  6. Sitting between the two prostrations 2
  7. The prostration of recitation (sujūd at-tilāwah) 2
  8. The tashahhud 1
  9. Blessings on the Prophet ﷺ after the tashahhud 2
  10. Supplications after the final tashahhud, before the salām 11
  11. Remembrance after the salām 8
  12. The prayer for seeking guidance (istikhārah) 1

Morning, evening and night

  1. Morning and evening remembrance 24
  2. Before sleeping 13
  3. When turning over in bed at night 1
  4. When frightened in sleep or troubled by loneliness 1
  5. On seeing a good or a bad dream 2
  6. The qunūt of the witr prayer 3
  7. After the salām of the witr prayer 1

Worry, fear and hardship

  1. For worry and grief 2
  2. In distress 4
  3. On meeting an enemy or a person in authority 3
  4. For one who fears the injustice of a ruler 2
  5. Against an enemy 1
  6. When afraid of people 1
  7. For one afflicted by doubt in his faith 3
  8. For settling a debt 2
  9. For whisperings during the prayer and recitation 1
  10. When a matter becomes difficult 1
  11. What to say and do on committing a sin 1
  12. Driving away the devil and his whisperings 3
  13. When something disliked happens or one is overwhelmed 1

Births and children

  1. Congratulations on the birth of a child, and the reply 1
  2. Seeking protection for children 1

Illness, death and the grave

  1. When visiting the sick 2
  2. The virtue of visiting the sick 1
  3. For the sick person who has given up hope of life 3
  4. Prompting the dying person 1
  5. When afflicted by a calamity 1
  6. When closing the eyes of the deceased 1
  7. For the deceased in the funeral prayer 4
  8. For a child in the funeral prayer 2
  9. Words of condolence 1
  10. When placing the deceased in the grave 1
  11. After burying the deceased 1
  12. When visiting the graves 1

Wind, rain and the new moon

  1. When the wind blows 2
  2. On hearing thunder 1
  3. Supplications for rain (istisqāʾ) 3
  4. When it rains 1
  5. After the rain 1
  6. Asking for clear skies when the rain is too heavy 1
  7. On sighting the new crescent 1

Fasting and food

  1. When breaking the fast 2
  2. Before eating 2
  3. After eating 2
  4. The guest's supplication for the host 1
  5. For one who gives you a drink, or offers one 1
  6. When breaking the fast with a host 1
  7. When a fasting person is offered food and does not break the fast 1
  8. What the fasting person says when insulted 1
  9. On seeing the first fruits of the season 1

Everyday life with others

  1. On sneezing 1
  2. When a non-Muslim sneezes and praises Allah 1
  3. For the newly married 1
  4. The bridegroom's supplication, and on buying an animal 1
  5. Before intimacy with one's spouse 1
  6. When angry 1
  7. On seeing someone afflicted with trial 1
  8. While sitting in a gathering 1
  9. Expiation at the end of a gathering 1
  10. For one who says: "May Allah forgive you" 1
  11. For one who does you a favour 1
  12. Protection from the trial of the Dajjāl 1
  13. For one who says: "I love you for the sake of Allah" 1
  14. For one who offers you some of his wealth 1
  15. When a loan is repaid 1
  16. For fear of shirk 1
  17. For one who says: "May Allah bless you" 1
  18. Against belief in evil omens 1

Travel

  1. When mounting an animal or vehicle 1
  2. For travel 1
  3. On entering a town or village 1
  4. On entering the market 1
  5. When the mount or vehicle stumbles 1
  6. The traveller's supplication for those he leaves behind 1
  7. The resident's supplication for the traveller 2
  8. Glorifying Allah while travelling 1
  9. The traveller at dawn 1
  10. On stopping at a place 1
  11. On returning from a journey 1

Good news, blessings and greetings

  1. On receiving something pleasing or displeasing 1
  2. The virtue of sending blessings on the Prophet ﷺ 5
  3. Spreading the greeting of salām 3
  4. Returning the greeting of a non-Muslim 1
  5. On hearing a rooster crow or a donkey bray 1
  6. On hearing dogs bark at night 1
  7. For someone you have reviled 1
  8. When praising a fellow Muslim 1
  9. When you are praised 1

Hajj and ʿUmrah

  1. The talbiyah of the pilgrim 1
  2. Saying takbīr on reaching the Black Stone 1
  3. Between the Yemeni Corner and the Black Stone 1
  4. On Ṣafā and Marwah 1
  5. On the Day of ʿArafah 1
  6. At al-Mashʿar al-Ḥarām (Muzdalifah) 1
  7. Saying takbīr with each pebble at the Jamarāt 1

Amazement, pain, the evil eye and more

  1. On being amazed or delighted 2
  2. On receiving good news 1
  3. What to say and do when feeling pain in the body 1
  4. For one who fears afflicting something with the evil eye 1
  5. When startled 1
  6. When slaughtering or offering a sacrifice 1
  7. Repelling the plots of the rebellious devils 1

Forgiveness and glorifying Allah

  1. Seeking forgiveness and repentance 6
  2. The virtue of tasbīḥ, taḥmīd, tahlīl and takbīr 12
  3. How the Prophet ﷺ glorified Allah 1
  4. Varieties of good and comprehensive manners 1

How was this edition made?

The book. حصن المسلم من أذكار الكتاب والسنة — Fortress of the Muslim: remembrance from the Qurʾān and the Sunnah — was compiled by Shaykh Saʿīd ibn ʿAlī ibn Wahf al-Qaḥṭānī as a short, portable abridgement of his larger work on remembrance, supplication and ruqyah from the Qurʾān and the Sunnah. Its chapters and numbering (132 chapters, 267 readings) are his; this edition keeps them so a reading can be found by its usual number.

The Arabic. Every reading that is a passage of the Qurʾān is printed from the verified Uthmani text of the Tanzil Project — the same text as deen2u's Qurʾān reader. The other readings follow the compiler's wording, fully vowelled, and each was compared word by word with the hadith as it stands in deen2u's own collections wherever it could be found there.

The English. The translation is deen2u's own, made from the Arabic for this edition and checked line by line against it. It is not taken from any published English edition of the book. Transliteration is deen2u's simple reading aid, for those still learning to read Arabic — the Arabic remains the text to recite.

The sources. Under each reading, Source lists the hadith records in deen2u's collections that were opened and found to contain it, with the grading those collections carry; each links to the hadith page. Compiler cites gives al-Qaḥṭānī's own reference. Where a source is held only in collections deen2u does not carry (for example al-Ḥākim, Ibn Ḥibbān or aṭ-Ṭabarānī), only the compiler's reference is shown — it has not been independently checked here.

Corrections are welcome at [email protected]. This is a reference for personal recitation, not a substitute for learning from qualified scholars.

Questions

What is Fortress of the Muslim (Ḥiṣn al-Muslim)?

A pocket collection of the supplications and words of remembrance taught in the Qurʾān and the Sunnah, arranged by the moment they are said — from waking up to sleeping, prayer, travel, illness and hardship. It was compiled by Saʿīd ibn ʿAlī ibn Wahf al-Qaḥṭānī.

Can I download it?

Yes. The whole deen2u edition is a free ebook in two formats: EPUB for phones and e-readers, and an A5 PDF for printing. Both are built from exactly the same text as these pages.

Is the English a published translation?

No. The English in this edition is deen2u's own translation, made directly from the Arabic and checked line by line.

How do I know where a supplication comes from?

Each reading lists the hadith records in deen2u’s collections that contain it, with their grading and a link, and the compiler’s own reference. Readings sourced only in collections deen2u does not hold show the compiler’s reference alone.