The Sunnah of waking up

1 – Bleaching the face with the hand from the effect of sleeping:

An Nawawi and Ibn Hajar recommended this act referring to a Hadith narrated by Imam Muslim

“ … then the Prophet (PBUH) woke up and sat bleaching his face with his hands”

(Al Bukhari, Hadith 183)

2 – Saying this Du’aa:

الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِيْ أَحْيَانَا بَعْدَ مَا أَمَاتَنَا، وَإِلَيْهِ النُّشُوْرُ

“Thanks to Allah Who gave us life after death , and all resurrection will be to Him.”

(Narrated by Al Bukhari – Al-Bukhari, Hadith 6318)

3 – Using ‘Sewak’ (1):

“Whenever the Prophet (PBUH) woke up, even at night; he used the sewak to brush his teeth”
(Al Bukhari, Hadith 245 and Muslim, Hadith 255 – Agreed upon)

The wisdom behind that is that the sewak flourishes and activates the body and eliminates bad odors.

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1 – A stick taken of the Araak tree (Salvadona Pensica for the sake of cleaning teeth)