The 365 · Sunnah · Day 108 · Speech
The Evening-Anchor Duʿāʾ: Allāhumma bika amsaynā
The hadith
اللَّهُمَّ بِكَ أَمْسَيْنَا وَبِكَ أَصْبَحْنَا وَبِكَ نَحْيَا وَبِكَ نَمُوتُ وَإِلَيْكَ الْمَصِير
The Prophet ﷺ, when he reached evening, would say: 'Allāhumma bika amsaynā wa-bika aṣbaḥnā wa-bika naḥyā wa-bika namūtu wa-ilayka al-maṣīr' (O Allah, by You we have entered the evening and by You we have entered the morning, and by You we live and by You we die, and to You is the final destination). (Sunan at-Tirmidhī 3391, Sunan Abū Dāwūd 5068, classed ṣaḥīḥ.)
Svenska: Profeten ﷺ, när han nådde kvällen, sade: 'Allahumma bika amsayna wa bika asbahna wa bika nahya wa bika namutu wa ilayka al-masir.' (Tirmidhī 3391, Abu Dawud 5068.)
Tirmidhī 3391, Abu Dawud 5068 (Abū Hurayrah)
The story
The Prophet ﷺ structured both morning and evening adhkār explicitly. The Companions practiced both. Modern adhkār-collections preserve the full daily protocol.
Why it's here
The evening duʿāʾ is the structural mirror of the morning duʿāʾ (Day 107). The pair frames the day in Allah-dependence: at the start (morning) and at the close (evening). The single change in the evening version (al-maṣīr instead of an-nushūr) reflects the slight emphasis-shift: at evening, the believer reflects on the structural destination (where am I going?); at morning, the resurrection-event (what comes after?).
Try it today
1. Memorize the evening version. 2. Recite between ʿAṣr and Maghrib (the structurally weighted window). 3. Pair with the evening sayyid al-istighfār and the broader evening adhkār protocol. 4. Build the structural evening rhythm: this is the closing-anchor of the day.
In your day
Modern evenings often dissolve into entertainment, family logistics, and exhaustion-induced phone-time. The discipline: anchor the evening with the adhkār before any of these. The cost is 10 seconds; the benefit is the structural day-closing in Allah-dependence.
A reflection to carry
Evening duʿāʾ: 'Allāhumma bika amsaynā wa-bika aṣbaḥnā wa-bika naḥyā wa-bika namūtu wa-ilayka al-maṣīr.' (Tirmidhī 3391, Abū Dāwūd 5068.) Structural mirror to morning duʿāʾ.
Read the longer reflection
The single change (al-maṣīr instead of an-nushūr) reflects the slight emphasis-shift: at evening, the believer reflects on structural destination (where am I going?); at morning, on resurrection-event (what comes after?). Cure: memorize the evening version; recite between ʿAṣr and Maghrib (structurally weighted window); pair with the evening sayyid al-istighfār and the broader evening adhkār protocol. The structural day-bracketing (morning + evening adhkār) is the foundational daily protection-and-orientation discipline. Modern evening-collapse-into-entertainment is structurally counter-Sunnah; anchor the evening before fatigue takes over.
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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