Sunan Abi Dawud

Sunan Abi Dawud 1259

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ يُونُسَ، حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرٌ، حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ حَكِيمٍ، أَخْبَرَنِي سَعِيدُ بْنُ يَسَارٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، أَنَّ كَثِيرًا، مِمَّا كَانَ يَقْرَأُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فِي رَكْعَتَىِ الْفَجْرِ بِـ ‏‏{‏ آمَنَّا بِاللَّهِ وَمَا أُنْزِلَ إِلَيْنَا ‏}‏ هَذِهِ الآيَةَ قَالَ هَذِهِ فِي الرَّكْعَةِ الأُولَى وَفِي الرَّكْعَةِ الآخِرَةِ بِـ ‏‏{‏ آمَنَّا بِاللَّهِ وَاشْهَدْ بِأَنَّا مُسْلِمُونَ ‏}‏ ‏.‏

Translation

Ahmad ibn Yunus narrated to us: Zuhayr narrated to us: Uthman ibn Hakim narrated to us: Sa'id ibn Yasar informed me, from Abd Allah ibn Abbas, that among the things the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) often recited in the two rak'ahs before dawn was: ‘We believe in Allah and in what was sent down to us’—this verse, he said, in the first rak'ah—and in the second rak'ah: ‘We believe in Allah, and bear witness that we submit to Him.’