Tried and Tested Dua to Stop Sinning

It is amazing that we seek a way to protect ourselves from sins and search for awrad and wazaif but the solution to our problem is already given by Rasulullah ﷺ. It is perhaps a victory of shaytan that he has made us forget this hadith and it does not appear in many books of adhkar nor have I heard it mentioned in a bayaan or lecture. In any case, here it is…

We relate in the book of at-Tirmidhi and others that Abu Dharr reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Whoever says ten times, after the salah of Subh (i.e. Fajr), whilst sitting in the position of tashahhud and before speaking: There is no god but Allah, He is One and has no partner. To Him belongs sovereignty and to Him belongs all praise, He gives life and He gives death, and He has power over all things will have ten good deeds written for him, ten of his sins will be forgiven and ten stages will be raised for him. It will be a shield for him against all repulsive things, he will be guarded from Shaytan, and no sins will be allowed to reach him that day unless it be from assigning partners to Allah.” At-Tirmidhi declared this to be a hasan hadith and in some texts hasan sahih.

Footnote: At-Tirmidhi (3470), who also states that this is a hasan sahih gharib hadith. It was also graded as hasan by Ibn Hajr owing to its narration by witnesses.

Kitab al-Adhkar The Book of Remembrances, by Imam Yahya ibn Sharaf an-Nawawi, revised and edited by Muhammad Isa Waley, Turath Publishing p. 125-126.

I only found this hadith online on one other website but I came across it first in this book Kitab al-Adhkar. There are many ahadith in it that are not well-known. I tested this particular adhkar and found it to be work without fail.

Subhana kallahumma wa bihamdika ash-haduana la ilaha illa Ant astaghfiruka wa atubu ilayk, ameen.