These supplications, all of them are beneficial to recite in rukū’, but the first one is most excellent in regards to reward, as the Messenger of Allah صَلّى اللهُ عليهِ وسلّم used to recite that mostly.
Shaykh Abu Muhammad Badī’ud-Dĩn Shah ar-Rāshidī as-Sindhī رحمه الله
1.
سُبْحَانَكَ اللَّهُمَّ رَبَّنَا وَبِحَمْدِكَ اَللَّهُمَّ اغْفِرْلِيْ
“Glorified are you, O Allaah, our Lord. And for you is all praise. O Allaah, forgive me.”1
2.
سُبْحَانَ رَبِّيَ العَظِيْمِ
“Glorified is my Lord, the Greatest.”2
3.
سُبُّوْحٌ قُدُّوْسٌ رَبُّ المَلاَئِكَةِ وَالرُّوْحِ
“Glorified and free from all faults, (He is) the Lord of the angels and the Rooh (Jibraa’eel).3
4.
سُبْحَانَ ذِيْ الجَبَرُوْتِ وَالْمَلَكُوْتِ وَالْكِبْرِيَاءِ وَالْعَظْمَةِ
“Glorified is the possessor of all power, sovereignty, magnificence, and greatness.”4
5.
أَللَّهُمَّ لَكَ رَكَعْتُ وَلَكَ أَسْلَمْتُ وَبِكَ آمَنْتُ وَعَلَيْكَ تَوَكَّلْتُ خَشَعَ سَمْعِيْ وَبَصَرِيْ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالمَيْنَ
“O Allaah, I bow to you, I submit to you, I believe in you, and I rely on you. My hearing and my sight are submitted to the Lord of the worlds.”5
Benefit:
All of these supplications are beneficial in rukū’, but the first is most excellent in regard to reward, as the Messenger of Allah صَلّى اللهُ عليهِ وسلّم used to recite this mostly. Accordingly, we should strive to recite this supplication more than the others, and occasionally recite the others so that we are not deprived of following the sunnah.
Regarding سُبْحَانَ رَبِّيَ العَظِيْمِ, some have the opinion that a Hadīth has been related with a command from Allah’s Messenger صَلّى اللهُ عليهِ وسلّم to recite these words, and it is better than the others. Yet there is a Hadīth related in Buhkārī and Muslim regarding the first supplication that the Messenger of Allaah صَلّى اللهُ عليهِ وسلّم used to recite frequently, thereby fulfilling the command of the Qur’ān.6 It is related in the Sahīh of al-Bukhārī that the Prophet of Allah, صَلّى اللهُ عليهِ وسلّم, always used to recite this supplication after Surah an-Nasr (إِذَا جَاءَ نَصْرُ اللهِ) was revealed, and Surah an-Nasr was revealed in the latter part of his life.7
Source: Authentic Supplications for the Prayers
Author: Shaykh Abu Muhammad Badī’ud-Dīn Shah ar-Rāshidī as-Sindhī رحمه الله (d.1416H)
Translated by: Abu Ahmad Muhammad Rather
Checking: Abu Hafsah Kashiff Khan
1 Bukhārī, Muslim
2 Tirmidhī, Abu Dawūd, Ibn Mājah, and Dārimī
3 Muslim
4 Nisāī
5 Muslim, Nisāī, Bayhaqī, Ibn Khuzaymah, and Ibn Hibbān
6 Nawawī’s Sharh Sahīh Muslim and Ibn Hajar’s Fath’hul Bārī
7 Ibn Hajar’s Fath’hul Bārī
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