It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id and Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever wakes up at night and wakes his family as well, and then the two of them pray two rak'ahs together, both of them are written among the men who remember Allah much and the women who remember Allah much." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he was sitting with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) when Sayyiduna Ali bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) came and said: May my father and mother be sacrificed for you, O Messenger of Allah! This Qur'an slips away from my breast; I find I am not able to retain it. So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: "O Abu al-Hasan! Shall I not teach you words by which Allah will benefit you, and benefit those whom you teach, and by which what you learn will be preserved in your breast?" He said: Yes, O Messenger of Allah! Please do teach me. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "When it is the night of Friday, if you are able to get up in the last third of the night, then do get up, for it is a time at which the angels are present and supplication is answered. It is the very time about which my brother Ya'qub (peace be upon him) said to his sons: 'I will soon ask my Lord to forgive you' [Surah Yusuf: 98] , meaning until the night of Friday came. If you are not able to get up at that time, then get up in the middle of the night; and if you cannot do even that, then get up at the beginning of the night. Then pray four rak'ahs in this way: in the first rak'ah recite Surah al-Fatihah and Surah Ya-Sin; in the second, Surah al-Fatihah and Surah al-Sajdah; in the third, Surah al-Fatihah and Surah al-Dukhan; and in the fourth rak'ah, Surah al-Fatihah and Surah al-Mulk. When you have finished the tashahhud, praise and glorify Allah, send blessings upon me and upon all the prophets, seek forgiveness for your believing brothers who preceded you in faith, then ask forgiveness for all the believing men and women, and at the end of that say this supplication: 'Allahumma rhamni bi-tarki al-ma'asi abadan ma abqaytani, wa rhamni an atakallafa ma la ya'nini, wa rzuqni husna al-nazari fima yurdika 'anni. Allahumma badi'a al-samawati wa al-ard, dha al-jalali wa al-ikram, wa al-'izzati allati la turam, as'aluka ya Allahu ya Rahmanu bi-jalalika wa nuri wajhika an tulzima qalbi hifza kitabika kama 'allamtani, wa rzuqni an atluwahu 'ala al-nahwi alladhi yurdika 'anni. Allahumma badi'a al-samawati wa al-ard, dha al-jalali wa al-ikram, wa al-'izzati allati la turam, as'aluka ya Allahu ya Rahmanu bi-jalalika wa nuri wajhika an tunawwira bi-kitabika basari, wa an tutliqa bihi lisani, wa an tufarrija bihi 'an qalbi, wa an tashraha bihi sadri, wa an tushghila bihi badani, fa-innahu la yu'inuni 'ala al-haqqi ghayruka, wa la yu'tihi illa ant, wa la hawla wa la quwwata illa billahi al-'aliyyi al-'azim' (O Allah! Have mercy on me by my abandoning sins for as long as You keep me alive; have mercy on me so that I do not burden myself with what does not concern me; and grant me the good insight by which You become pleased with me. O Allah, Originator of the heavens and the earth, Possessor of majesty and honour, and of might that none can aspire to! O Allah, O Most Merciful, I ask You by Your majesty and the light of Your Face to bind my heart to the preservation of Your Book as You have taught me, and grant me that I recite it in the manner that makes You pleased with me. O Allah, Creator of the heavens and the earth, Possessor of majesty and honour, and of might that none can reach! O Allah, O Most Merciful, I ask You by Your majesty and the light of Your Face to illuminate my sight through Your Book, to make my tongue fluent by it, to remove through it the tightness of my heart, to open my breast, and to occupy my body in acting upon it; for none can help me upon the truth except You, and none can grant it except You; and there is no power to avoid sin and no strength to do good except with Allah, the Most High, the Most Great). O Abu al-Hasan! Do this for three, five or seven Fridays, and by Allah's leave your supplication will be answered. By the One who sent me with the truth! It has never failed any believer." Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) says: By Allah! Only five or seven Fridays had passed when Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) again came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) in a gathering like that one and said: O Messenger of Allah! Previously my state was that I could not even memorise four verses or thereabouts, and they would slip away; but today I memorise about forty verses, and when I recite them it is as if the Book of Allah is before my eyes. And previously I would hear a hadith and forget it, but now I hear hadiths, and when I narrate them not a single letter of them is missing. At that point the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to him: "O Abu al-Hasan! By the Lord of the Ka'bah, you are a believer." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that Sayyidah Umm Sulaym (may Allah be pleased with her) came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) in the morning and said: Teach me some words that I may say in my prayer. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Declare the greatness of Allah (Allahu Akbar) ten times, glorify Him (Subhan Allah) ten times, and praise Him (Alhamdulillah) ten times, then ask for whatever you wish; Allah says: Yes (it is accepted), yes (it is accepted)." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, and its supporting witness is the hadith of the people of Yemen about the prayer of glorification (Salat al-Tasbih).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to Sayyiduna al-Abbas bin Abd al-Muttalib (may Allah be pleased with him): "O Abbas! O my uncle! Shall I not give you a gift? Shall I not give you a present? Shall I not do an excellent thing for you? There are ten qualities which, if you do them, Allah will forgive all your sins: the first and the last, the old and the new, the unintentional and the deliberate, the small and the great, the hidden and the open. You should pray four rak'ahs in this way: in every rak'ah recite Surah al-Fatihah and some other surah. When you have finished the recitation in the first rak'ah, then while still standing say 'Subhan Allah, wa al-hamdu lillah, wa la ilaha illa Allah, wa Allahu akbar' (Glory be to Allah, all praise is for Allah, there is no god but Allah, and Allah is the Greatest) fifteen times. Then bow and say it ten times while bowing; then raise your head from the bowing and say it ten times; then prostrate and say it ten times; then raise your head from the prostration and say it ten times; then make the second prostration and say it ten times; then raise your head from the prostration (before rising for the second rak'ah) and say it ten times. In this way it will total seventy-five times in each rak'ah; repeat the same in all four rak'ahs. If you can pray it once every day, then do so; if not, then once every Friday; if you cannot do even that, then once a month; if you cannot do even that, then once a year; and if you cannot do even that, then be sure to pray it once in your whole life." Musa bin Abd al-Aziz narrated this hadith from al-Hakam bin Aban with a connected chain, and Abu Bakr bin Ishaq, Abu Dawud and al-Nasa'i recorded it, and all three of them narrated it from Abd al-Rahman bin Bishr.

(A narration reported in support of the previous hadith, with identical wording.) As for the condition of Musa bin Abd al-Aziz:

Abu al-Hasan Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Ya'qub narrated to me; Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Abd al-Aziz narrated to him; Muhammad bin Sahl bin Askar narrated to him; he said: I heard Abd al-Razzaq, when he was asked about Abu Shu'ayb al-Qinbari, and he praised him very highly. As for the scholarly standing of al-Hakam bin Aban:

Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Wasil al-Baykandi informed me; his father narrated to him; Muhammad bin Isma'il al-Bukhari narrated to him; Ali bin al-Madini narrated to him from Ibn Uyaynah, who said: I asked Yusuf bin Ya'qub: How was al-Hakam bin Aban (as a narrator)? He replied: He was our master (elder). As for Ibrahim bin al-Hakam bin Aban narrating this hadith from his father as mursal:

Ali bin Isa narrated to us; Ibrahim bin Abi Talib and Muhammad bin Ishaq narrated to him, both of them saying: Muhammad bin Rafi' narrated to us; Ibrahim bin al-Hakam bin Aban narrated to him; his father narrated to him; and Ikrimah narrated to him that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to his uncle al-Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) (then the narrator mentioned the whole hadith). Imam al-Hakim says: This narration being mursal does not weaken the hadith being connected (mawsul), because an addition in the chain (of the Companion's name) from a trustworthy narrator is more deserving and more acceptable than the mursal form. Moreover, the imam of hadith of that era, Ishaq bin Ibrahim al-Hanzali (Ibn Rahawayh), preserved this chain through Ibrahim bin al-Hakam bin Aban and narrated it as connected:

Abu Bakr bin Quraysh informed us; al-Hasan bin Sufyan informed him; Ishaq bin Ibrahim al-Hanzali informed him; Ibrahim bin al-Hakam bin Aban informed him from his father, he from Ikrimah, he from Ibn Abbas, and he from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), like the hadith of Musa bin Abd al-Aziz from al-Hakam. And it is also authentically established from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) taught his cousin Ja'far bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) this prayer (Salat al-Tasbih) just as he had taught it to his uncle al-Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent Sayyiduna Ja'far bin Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him) to the land of Abyssinia. When he returned, he (peace and blessings be upon him) embraced him and kissed him between his eyes, then said: "Shall I not give you a gift, shall I not give you glad tidings, shall I not present you with a present and a rare thing?" He said: Yes, O Messenger of Allah! He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Pray four rak'ahs, and in every rak'ah recite Surah al-Fatihah and some other surah. Then after the recitation, while still standing and before bowing, say fifteen times: 'Subhan Allah, wa al-hamdu lillah, wa la ilaha illa Allah, wa Allahu akbar, wa la hawla wa la quwwata illa billah' (Glory be to Allah, all praise is for Allah, there is no god but Allah, Allah is the Greatest, and there is no power and no strength except with Allah). Then bow and say it ten times; then raise your head from the bowing and say it ten times; then prostrate and say it ten times; then, before standing up (for the second rak'ah), say it ten times. In this way the first rak'ah will be complete. Then do the same in the remaining three rak'ahs until the four rak'ahs are complete." This chain is sahih (authentic), with no ambiguity in it. One proof of the authenticity of this hadith is that from the era of the followers of the Successors (Atba' al-Tabi'in) up to our own time, the imams have acted upon it and have kept teaching it to people, among them Abdullah bin al-Mubarak.