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Allah's Messenger
Allah's Messenger (Sahih el Boykhari · Select Collections) — "Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, \"Satan puts three knots at the back of the head of any of you if he…
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- Night sleep, prayer, remembrance, and spiritual discipline in the narrations
- Satan places three knots at the back of a sleeping person's head and urges continued sleep.
- Remembering Allah upon waking removes the first knot.
- Performing ablution removes the second knot.
- Praying removes the third knot and leads to an energetic morning with a good heart.
- Failing to perform these practices leads to laziness and a mischievous heart.
- A dream narration warns against learning the Qur'an without acting on it and sleeping through compulsory prayers.
- Sleeping until morning and missing the prayer is described as Satan urinating in a person's ears.
- In the last third of the night, Allah invites people to invoke Him, ask Him, and seek His forgiveness.
- Aisha reported that the Prophet used to sleep early at night.