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A Supplication for Meeting One’s New Wife

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Question:

Asalamu alikum waramathuallah inshallah at the end of this month I am getting married is there any dua or namaz (prayer) before first night (I mean meeting her)?

Country: India

Answer:

Wa alaykum salam wa rahmatuLlahi wa barakatuHu,

When one encounters his new wife on the wedding night, it is recommended that he say “BismiLlah,” taking the front part of her head in his hand he says,

“Allah bless each one of us in his partner. O Allah! Verily I ask you of her good and the good which you created her with. And I seek refuge with You from her evil and the evil which you created her with.”

The first part “Allah bless each one of us in his partner,” is mentioned by Imam Nawawi in Kitab al-Adhkar. Perhaps an asl for it could be found in a hadith related by Imam Bukhari, بارك الله لك وأولم ولو بشاة. And Allah knows best. The rest is related through a sahih isnad by Imams Abu Dawud and Ibn Majah.

(See: Kitab al-Adhkar p. 409-10)

For the Arabic see: الدعاء إذا دخلت عليه امرأته ليلة الزفاف

And Allah knows best.

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