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What to say when you go to bed

 Allah's Messenger (PBUH) used to taught His companions remembrances to recite at bedtime, and He urged them to be consistent in reciting them because of their great reward and abundant goodness, as Albara' bin Azin reported that The Prophet (PBUH) said to him: "O so-and-so Whenever you go to your bed, Say Allahumma aslamtu nafsi ilaika, wa wajjahtu wajhi ilaika, wa fawwadtu amri ilaika wa alja'tu zahri ilaika, raghbatan wa rahbatan ilaika, la malja'a wa la manja menka ella ilaika, amantu bi-ketabeka allazi anzalta wa be-nabiyika allazi arsalta: O Allah! I have surrendered myself over to You and have turned my face towards you and leave all my affairs to You and depend on You and put my trust in You expecting Your reward and fearing Your punishment, there is neither fleeing from You nor refuge but with You, I believe in the Book which You have sent down and in Your Prophet whom You have sent, the Prophet added If you then die on that night, then you will die as a Muslim, and if you wake alive in the morning, then you will receive reward" (Sahih Albukhari 7488), and in another narration, Albara' said: "I repeated it before the Prophet (PBUH) and when I reached Allahumma amantu biketabeka  Allazi anzalta wa rasulika: O Allah ! I believed in Your Book which You have sent down and Your Messenger, the Prophet said no wa nabiyika allazi arsalta: Your Prophet whom You have sent" (Sahih Albukhari 247).

 And as narrated by Abu Hurayrah that the Prophet (PBUH) said  "When anyone of you goes to bed, he should take hold of the hem of his lower garment and then should clean (his bed) with the help of that, and then should recite the Name of Allah for he himself does not know what he left behind him on his bed, and when he intends to lie on bed, he should lie on his right side, and utter these words Subhanaka Allahumma rabbi bika wada'tu janbi wa bika arfa'uhu in amsakta nafsi fa-ghfir laha, wa in arsaltaha fahfazha bima tahfazu bihi ibadeka alsalihin: O Allah! Glory to be You, my Lord, it is with You that I place my side, and it is with You that I take it up. If You withhold my soul (cause me to die), then Forgive it, and if You leave me (let me live), then Protect it by that with which You have protected Your righteous servants" (Sahih Muslim 2714). 

 And Allah's Messenger (PBUH) used to begin His day by remembering Allah Almighty and end his day by remembering Allah Almighty, as Hudhaifa bin Al-Yaman narrated: "When the Prophet (PBUH) went to bed at night, He would put His hand under His cheek and then say Allahumma bismeka amutu wa ahya: O Allah! With Your Name, I die and I live, and when He got up, He would say Al-hamdu le-llahi allazi ahyana ba'da ma amatana wa elaiyhi al-nushur: Praise be to Allah who has made us alive after He made us die and unto Him is the resurrection" (Sahih Albukhari 6314).

 The Messenger of Allah had taught Fatima (His daughter) and her husband Ali bin Abi Talib the comprehensive remembrance for which Allah gives great reward and which would be a compensation for the hardships of the worldly life, as Ali reported: "Fatima had blisters on her hand because of working at the hand-mill, there had fallen to the lot of Allah's Messenger (PBUH) some captives, she came to the Prophet, but she did not find Him, she met Aisha and informed her, when Allah's Messenger came, Aisha informed Him about the visit of Fatima, Allah's Messenger came to us when we had gone to our beds, so we tried to stand up, but Allah's Messenger said Keep to your beds and He sat amongst us and I felt the coldness of His feet upon my chest, He then said May I not direct you to something better than what you have asked for?, when you go to your bed, Say Allahu Akbar: Allah is the Greatest thirty-four times, Subhana Allah: Glory to be Allah thirty-three times, and Al-Hamdu le-llah: Praise be to Allah thirty-three times, and that is better than the slave for you" (Sahih Muslim 2727).