"If you wish for anything after that."

And when he prostrated, he would say in his prostration: "O Allah, to You I have prostrated, and in You I have believed, and to You I have submitted. You are my Lord. My face has prostrated to the One who created it, and opened its hearing and sight. Blessed is Allah, the best of creators."

And he would say upon finishing the prayer: "O Allah, forgive me what I have done before and what I have delayed, what I have kept secret and what I have done openly. You are my God, there is no god but You."(1)

This is a good and authentic hadith.

And the practice according to this hadith is with al-Shafi'i and some of our companions.

And some of the people of knowledge from the people of Kufa and others said: He says this in the supererogatory prayer, and he does not say it in the obligatory prayer.(2)

I heard Abu Isma'il al-Tirmidhi say: I heard Sulayman ibn Dawud al-Hashimi say, and he mentioned this hadith, then said: This is with us like the hadith of al-Zuhri, from Salim, from his father.

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(1) A sound hadith, reported in full and in abridged form by Ahmad (717), Abu Dawud (744) and (761), and Ibn Majah (864).
See the preceding hadith under number (3421).
(2) From his saying: "And some of the people of knowledge" to here was not included in the printed edition, and we have established it from our manuscript copies, and the copy upon which al-Mubarakfuri wrote his commentary.