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Juwayriyah bint al-Harith رضي الله عنها
Four Words Heavier Than a Morning
One morning the Prophet ﷺ left Juwayriyah's room early, after the dawn prayer, while she sat in her place of prayer remembering Allah. He returned well into the forenoon and found her still sitting there, exactly as he had left her. "Are you still as I left you?" he asked. She said yes.
He told her: "After leaving you I said four phrases, three times each. If they were weighed against all you have said since this morning, they would outweigh it: Glory be to Allah and praise be to Him, as many times as the number of His creation, as much as pleases Him, as much as the weight of His Throne, and as much as the ink of His words" (Sahih Muslim 2726).
He was not belittling her devotion. He was giving her — and through her, all who would come after — words that hold more than a person could count in a lifetime.
Long devotion is beloved to Allah, and the Prophet ﷺ added to it words whose meaning is as vast as the creation they praise.
Could you learn these four phrases and make them part of your morning?
- Sahih Muslim 2726 Sahih · in the two Sahihs
What the hadith grades mean
- Sahih (authentic): an unbroken chain of trustworthy, precise narrators, free of hidden flaws or contradiction. It is acted upon.
- Hasan (good): like sahih, but a narrator's precision is slightly lighter. It is also accepted and acted upon. "Hasan sahih" means it reaches sahih by its routes.
- Da'if (weak): a break in the chain or a narrator who is not reliable enough. It is not used to establish beliefs or rulings.
- Very weak (munkar, matruk): a seriously flawed chain or a narrator accused of lying. It is not relied on at all.
- Mawdu' (fabricated): falsely attributed to the Prophet ﷺ. It may not be narrated as his words except to warn against it.
- The two Sahihs: every hadith with a full chain in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim is accepted as sahih by the scholars of hadith.
- Historical report: biographies and histories (Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabari) record events with chains that are often incomplete. They are used for the story, not for rulings.
- Hadith scholars grade a narration; the four madhhabs do not. Where a hadith carries a ruling, the page shows which schools act on it.
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