"There is no Muslim who takes to his bed and recites a surah from the Book of Allah, but Allah appoints an angel over him, so that nothing that harms him comes near him until he stirs, whenever he stirs."(1)

This hadith is only known to us through this chain.

Al-Jurayrī: he is Saʿīd ibn Iyās Abū Masʿūd al-Jurayrī, and Abū al-ʿAlāʾ: his name is Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Shikhkhīr.

24 - Chapter: What has been reported concerning glorifying Allah (tasbīḥ), declaring His greatness (takbīr), and praising Him (taḥmīd) at bedtime

3707 - Abū al-Khaṭṭāb Ziyād ibn Yaḥyā al-Baṣrī narrated to us, saying: Azhar al-Sammān narrated to us, from Ibn ʿAwn, from Ibn Sīrīn, from ʿAbīdah, from ʿAlī, who said: Fāṭimah complained to me of the soreness of her hands from grinding grain, so I said: "If you were to go to your father and ask him for a servant." He said: "Shall I not guide you two to something better for you than a servant? When you take to your beds, say thirty-three, thirty-three, and thirty-four: of praise (taḥmīd), glorification (tasbīḥ), and declaring greatness (takbīr)." And in the hadith there is a story.(2)

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(1) Its chain of transmission is the same as the preceding one, and it is weak due to the narrator's vagueness in reporting it from Shaddād ibn Aws. It was also recorded by Aḥmad (17132) and al-Nasāʾī in "ʿAmal al-Yawm wa al-Laylah" (812). His saying: "until he stirs, whenever he stirs" means: he wakes up whenever he wakes up, whether after a long time or a short time of sleep.

(2) A sound (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith, recorded in extended and abridged forms with similar wording by Aḥmad (604), al-Bukhārī (3113), Muslim (2727), Abū Dāwūd (2988), and al-Nasāʾī in =