The 365 · Sunnah · Day 107 · Speech
The Morning-Anchor Duʿāʾ: Allāhumma bika aṣbaḥnā
The hadith
اللَّهُمَّ بِكَ أَصْبَحْنَا وَبِكَ أَمْسَيْنَا وَبِكَ نَحْيَا وَبِكَ نَمُوتُ وَإِلَيْكَ النُّشُور
The Prophet ﷺ, when he reached morning, would say: 'Allāhumma bika aṣbaḥnā wa-bika amsaynā wa-bika naḥyā wa-bika namūtu wa-ilayka an-nushūr' (O Allah, by You we have entered the morning and by You we have entered the evening, and by You we live and by You we die, and to You is the resurrection). (Sunan at-Tirmidhī 3391, Sunan Abū Dāwūd 5068, classed ṣaḥīḥ, Abū Hurayrah.)
Svenska: Profeten ﷺ, när han nådde morgonen, sade: 'Allahumma bika asbahna wa bika amsayna wa bika nahya wa bika namutu wa ilayka an-nushur.' (O Allah, genom Dig har vi gått in i morgonen och genom Dig i kvällen, genom Dig lever vi och genom Dig dör vi, och till Dig är uppståndelsen.) (Tirmidhī 3391, Abu Dawud 5068.)
Tirmidhī 3391, Abu Dawud 5068 (Abū Hurayrah)
The story
The Prophet ﷺ established a complete morning-and-evening adhkār protocol. This duʿāʾ is one of the foundational entries. The Companions recited multiple morning-and-evening adhkār as a structural daily practice. Modern adhkār-collections (Ṣoḥīḥ al-Adhkār by an-Nawawī, modern Ibn al-Qayyim's al-Wābil aṣ-Ṣayyib) compile these.
Why it's here
The morning duʿāʾ structurally anchors the believer's day in Allah-dependence. The phrase covers the four life-states (morning, evening, life, death) and the eschatological return (an-nushūr). The cost is 10 seconds; the benefit is the structural daily reaffirmation of total dependence.
Try it today
1. Memorize the duʿāʾ. 2. Recite once each morning (between Fajr and sunrise is the structurally weighted window). 3. Recite the parallel evening version, replacing 'aṣbaḥnā' with 'amsaynā' and 'an-nushūr' with 'al-maṣīr' (after ʿAṣr or before Maghrib). 4. Pair with sayyid al-istighfār (Day 106) as the morning-evening structural pair.
In your day
Build the adhkār as the first recitation after Fajr-prayer. Within months, the structural daily anchor produces a different morning-default: the day begins anchored in Allah-dependence, not phone-checking.
A reflection to carry
Morning duʿāʾ: 'Allāhumma bika aṣbaḥnā wa-bika amsaynā wa-bika naḥyā wa-bika namūtu wa-ilayka an-nushūr.' (Tirmidhī 3391.) The structural day-anchor in Allah-dependence.
Read the longer reflection
The phrase covers the four life-states (morning, evening, life, death) and the eschatological return (an-nushūr). 10 seconds; structural daily reaffirmation of total dependence. Cure: memorize; recite once each morning (between Fajr and sunrise is the structurally weighted window); pair with sayyid al-istighfār (Day 106) as the morning-evening structural pair. Modern morning-default-of-phone-checking is structurally counter-Sunnah; the discipline is to begin the day with the structural anchor before any inputs.
Sources: Tirmidhi, Abu Dawud. The Qur'an and its translation are verified; the scholarship is retold faithfully in our own words and credited to its sources, never reproduced verbatim.
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