Virtues of the Quran's Chapters and Verses
Special Virtues of the Qur'an's Chapters and Verses 86
عَنْ عَائِشَةَ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم كَانَ إِذَا أَوَى إِلَى فِرَاشِهِ كُلَّ لَيْلَةٍ جَمَعَ كَفَّيْهِ ثُمَّ نَفَثَ فِيهِمَا فَقَرَأَ فِيهِمَا (قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ) وَ(قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الْفَلَقِ) وَ(قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ النَّاسِ( ثُمَّ يَمْسَحُ بِهِمَا مَا اسْتَطَاعَ مِنْ جَسَدِهِ يَبْدَأُ بِهِمَا عَلَى رَأْسِهِ وَوَجْهِهِ وَمَا أَقْبَلَ مِنْ جَسَدِهِ يَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ ثَلاَثَ مَرَّاتٍ.
ʿĀʾishah reported that every night when the Prophet ﷺ went to bed, he would cup his hands together, breathe into them, and recite into them ‘Say: He is Allah, the One’ (Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ), ‘Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of daybreak’ (Sūrat al-Falaq), and ‘Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind’ (Sūrat an-Nās). Then he would wipe them over as much of his body as he could, beginning with his head and face and the front of his body. He would do this three times.
Translation notes
أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم كَانَ إِذَا أَوَى إِلَى فِرَاشِهِ كُلَّ لَيْلَةٍ جَمَعَ كَفَّيْهِ ثُمَّ نَفَثَ فِيهِمَا فَقَرَأَ فِيهِمَا (قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ) وَ(قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الْفَلَقِ) وَ(قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ النَّاسِ( ثُمَّ يَمْسَحُ بِهِمَا مَا اسْتَطَاعَ مِنْ جَسَدِهِ يَبْدَأُ بِهِمَا عَلَى رَأْسِهِ وَوَجْهِهِ وَمَا أَقْبَلَ مِنْ جَسَدِهِ يَفْعَلُ ذَلِكَ ثَلاَثَ مَرَّاتٍ.
The Arabic explicitly names Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ, al-Falaq, and an-Nās; the English witness generalizes them as ‘the last three chapters’ without listing them.
Should the three sūrahs be named explicitly in the translation?