The 365 · Sunnah · Day 109 · Speech
Reciting the Prophetic Duʿāʾ When Entering Home
This day is still being reviewed. Its wording, transliterations, and references are being checked before it is final, so please take care with transliterations until then.
The hadith
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ وَلَجْنَا، وَبِسْمِ اللَّهِ خَرَجْنَا، وَعَلَى اللَّهِ رَبِّنَا تَوَكَّلْنَا، ثُمَّ لِيُسَلِّمْ عَلَى أَهْلِه
The Prophet ﷺ: 'When a man enters his home and remembers Allah at his entrance and his eating, the Shayṭān says (to his comrades): There is no place for you to spend the night and no dinner. When he enters and does not remember Allah at his entrance, the Shayṭān says: You have a place to spend the night. When he does not remember Allah at his eating, the Shayṭān says: You have a place to spend the night and you have dinner.' (Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 2018, Jābir.) Cross-ref Abū Dāwūd 5096: 'Bismi-llāhi walajnā, wa-bismi-llāhi kharajnā, wa-ʿalā Allāhi rabbinā tawakkalnā, thumma li-yusallim ʿalā ahlih.'
Svenska: Profeten ﷺ: 'När en man går in i sitt hem och kommer ihåg Allah vid ingången och vid sin måltid, säger Shaytan: Det finns ingen plats för er att tillbringa natten och ingen middag. När han går in och inte kommer ihåg Allah vid ingången, säger Shaytan: Ni har en plats att tillbringa natten.' (Sahih Muslim 2018.)
Sahih Muslim 2018, Abu Dawud 5096 (Jābir)
The story
The Companions internalized this. The Prophet ﷺ modeled it consistently: at every home-entry, bismi-llāh. The classical scholars: this hadith establishes the structural significance of the bismi-llāh-at-entry; modern households that do not practice it accumulate Shayṭānic disturbance over time.
Why it's here
The Prophet ﷺ named the structural reality: the believer's bismi-llāh at entry to the home blocks Shayṭān from spending the night there. The structural protection is operational: a single phrase at the threshold blocks the entire household from Shayṭānic disturbance during the night. The cost is 3 seconds; the benefit is structural household-protection.
Try it today
1. At every entry to your home: say bismi-llāh (or the longer duʿāʾ: 'Bismi-llāhi walajnā, wa-bismi-llāhi kharajnā, wa-ʿalā Allāhi rabbinā tawakkalnā'). 2. Then give salām to the family present. 3. The combined practice (bismi-llāh at threshold + salām to family) is the complete Prophetic entry-protocol. 4. Train children to do the same.
In your day
Multiple home-entries daily (returning from work, errands, school-pickup): each is an opportunity for the bismi-llāh. Build it as automatic. Pair with the salām-to-empty-house Sunnah (Day 115).
A reflection to carry
Duʿāʾ when entering the home (revisit). The bismi-llāh-at-threshold blocks Shayṭān's night-stay (Muslim 2018). Structural household-protection.
Read the longer reflection
The Prophet ﷺ: when the believer remembers Allah at home-entry and at eating, Shayṭān cannot stay the night nor share the dinner. A single phrase at the threshold blocks the entire household from Shayṭānic disturbance during the night. Cure: at every entry to your home, say bismi-llāh (or the longer duʿāʾ: 'Bismi-llāhi walajnā, wa-bismi-llāhi kharajnā, wa-ʿalā Allāhi rabbinā tawakkalnā'); pair with salām to family present; train children to do the same. Multiple home-entries daily are multiple opportunities for the named protection; the cumulative reward across years is structurally severe.
Sources: Sahih Muslim, 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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