al-Ṣalāt al-Nāriyya
al-Ṣalāt al-Tafrījiyya · author unsettled
الصلاة النارية
A short blessing on the Prophet, often recited by groups.
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1. The blessing
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ صَلَاةً كَامِلَةً١ 1. Allāhumma ṣalli ṣalātan kāmilatanO God, bless with a complete blessing,Ya Allah, limpahkanlah salawat yang sempurna,Ya Allah, limpahkanlah selawat yang sempurna,Allah'ım, kâmil bir salâtÔ Dieu, bénis d'une bénédiction complète,Oh Dios, bendice con una bendición completa,اے اللہ، کامل درود بھیج،خدایا، درودی کامل بفرست،وَسَلِّمْ سَلَامًا تَامًّا٢ 2. wa-sallim salāman tāmmanand grant a perfect peace,dan salam yang paripurna,dan salam yang lengkap,ve tam bir selâm eyleet accorde une paix parfaite,y concede una paz perfecta,اور پورا سلام،و سلامی تمام،عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ٣ 3. ʿalā sayyidinā Muḥammadinupon our master Muḥammad,kepada junjungan kami Muhammad,ke atas penghulu kami Muhammad,efendimiz Muhammed'e,sur notre maître Muḥammad,sobre nuestro señor Muḥammad,ہمارے آقا محمد پر،بر سرور ما محمد،
2. By whom
الَّذِي تَنْحَلُّ بِهِ الْعُقَدُ٤ 4. alladhī tanḥallu bihi l-ʿuqaduby whom knots are undone,yang dengannya ikatan-ikatan terurai,yang dengan baginda terungkai segala simpulan,ki onunla düğümler çözülür,par qui les nœuds se dénouent,por quien se desatan los nudos,جن سے گرہیں کھلتی ہیں،که به او گرهها گشوده میشود،وَتَنْفَرِجُ بِهِ الْكُرَبُ٥ 5. wa-tanfariju bihi l-kurabuand by whom distress is lifted,dan dengannya kesusahan terlepas,dan dengan baginda terangkat segala kesusahan,onunla sıkıntılar açılır,et par qui la détresse se dissipe,y por quien se disipa la angustia,اور جن سے کرب دور ہوتا ہے،و به او اندوهها برطرف میشود،وَتُقْضَى بِهِ الْحَوَائِجُ٦ 6. wa-tuqḍā bihi l-ḥawāʾijuand by whom needs are met,dan dengannya segala hajat terpenuhi,dan dengan baginda tertunai segala hajat,onunla ihtiyaçlar giderilir,et par qui les besoins sont comblés,y por quien se satisfacen las necesidades,اور جن سے حاجتیں پوری ہوتی ہیں،و به او حاجتها برآورده میشود،وَتُنَالُ بِهِ الرَّغَائِبُ٧ 7. wa-tunālu bihi r-raghāʾibuand by whom longings are attained,dan dengannya segala keinginan tercapai,dan dengan baginda tercapai segala keinginan,onunla arzulara erişilir,et par qui les désirs sont atteints,y por quien se alcanzan los anhelos,اور جن سے آرزوئیں حاصل ہوتی ہیں،و به او آرزوها به دست میآید،وَحُسْنُ الْخَوَاتِيمِ٨ 8. wa-ḥusnu l-khawātīmiand good endings,begitu pula akhir yang baik,dan kesudahan yang baik,ve güzel sonlara,et les belles fins,y los buenos finales,اور اچھے انجام،و نیکی فرجامها،وَيُسْتَسْقَى الْغَمَامُ بِوَجْهِهِ الْكَرِيمِ٩ 9. wa-yustasqā l-ghamāmu bi-wajhihi l-karīmiand by whose noble face the clouds are asked for rain,dan dengan wajahnya yang mulia awan dimintakan hujan,dan dengan wajah baginda yang mulia hujan dipohon daripada awan,onun kerîm yüzüyle buluttan yağmur istenir,et par le noble visage de qui l'on demande aux nuages la pluie,y por cuyo noble rostro se pide lluvia a las nubes,اور جن کے روئے کریم کے ذریعے بادلوں سے بارش مانگی جاتی ہے،و به روی کریم او از ابر باران خواسته میشود،
3. The family, and the measure
وَعَلَى آلِهِ وَصَحْبِهِ١٠ 10. wa-ʿalā ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihiand upon his family and companions,dan kepada keluarga dan para sahabatnya,dan ke atas keluarga dan sahabat baginda,ailesine ve ashabına da,et sur sa famille et ses compagnons,y sobre su familia y sus compañeros,اور اُن کی آل اور اصحاب پر،و بر خاندان و یاران او،فِي كُلِّ لَمْحَةٍ وَنَفَسٍ١١ 11. fī kulli lamḥatin wa-nafasinin every glance and every breath,pada setiap kedipan dan setiap napas,pada setiap kerlingan dan setiap hembusan nafas,her bakışta ve her nefeste,en chaque coup d'œil et chaque souffle,en cada mirada y en cada aliento,ہر جھلک اور ہر سانس میں،در هر نگاه و هر نفس،بِعَدَدِ كُلِّ مَعْلُومٍ لَكَ١٢ 12. bi-ʿadadi kulli maʿlūmin lakato the number of all that is known to You.sebanyak segala yang Engkau ketahui.sebanyak bilangan segala yang Engkau ketahui.Senin bildiğin her şeyin sayısınca.selon le nombre de tout ce qui T'est connu.según el número de todo lo que Te es conocido.اُن سب چیزوں کی تعداد کے برابر جو تیرے علم میں ہیں۔به شمار هر آنچه برای تو معلوم است.
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Group inshād, on the programme Madad
On Alhayah TV Network ↗. The video's title credits فرقة عباد الرحمن للإنشاد الديني. Automatic timing The prayer is the first 75 seconds of this video, recited once. Other pieces follow, so playback stops there.
The prayer and where it comes from
This is a short blessing on the Prophet, often recited by groups, in Arabic-speaking countries as well as Turkey, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Who wrote it is not settled. The earliest text we have found is in Ibn Ṣaʿd al-Tilimsānī's Rawḍat al-nisrīn (p. 184). He says Sīdī Ibrāhīm al-Tāzī, the Sufi settled at Wahrān (Oran) who died in Shaʿbān 866 (May 1462), opened a letter to Ibn Ṣaʿd's father with this prayer. Ibn Ṣaʿd does not say al-Tāzī composed it. Yūsuf al-Nabhānī and ʿAbd Allāh al-Ghumārī do call it his.
Some name older figures. Nabhānī (Afḍal al-ṣalawāt, p. 111) quotes Muḥammad Ḥaqqī al-Nāzilī's Khazīnat al-asrār reporting al-Qurṭubī (d. 671) on its virtues. An answer on SeekersGuidance points out that if al-Tāzī compiled it, al-Qurṭubī and Ibn Ḥajar (d. 852), who is cited the same way, could not have spoken of it, and that none of these claims comes with a reference. We have found the report about al-Qurṭubī only in these later books.
The same passage in Nabhānī says the people of the Maghrib call it al-Nāriyya: to seek something or avert a harm, they gather in one sitting and recite it 4,444 times. It gives other counts as well. We pass these on as reports. We have not found who first set that number, or why.
Also known as: al-Ṣalāt al-Tafrījiyya · al-Ṣalāt al-Tāziyya · al-Ṣalāt al-Qurṭubiyya · Sholawat Nariyah · Shalawat Nariyah · Selawat Tafrijiyah · Salât-ı Tefriciye · Salat-ı Nariye · الصلاة التفريجية · الصلاة التازية.
The objections
Not everyone accepts it. IslamQA (no. 7505) calls the occasion, the number 4,444 and the communal recitation contrived, and holds that phrases about meeting needs and relieving distress exaggerate about the Prophet and amount to shirk. Answering a question about fixed counts, the Ḥanafī site MuftiOnline says there is no basis for them. On the other side, SeekersGuidance says the unknown authorship should not deter anyone from reciting it, and an Egyptian press report has a fatwa officer of Dār al-Iftāʾ, Shaykh Muḥammad Wisām, defending it from Qurʾān 33:56, since any wording of blessing is allowed. We have not found a formal fatwa from Dār al-Iftāʾ. We report these views and do not rule between them.
Listen
Recordings by others, on their own channels. The first is the one the Listen button follows. We checked the wording of the others from a machine transcript of their opening minutes, and no person has listened to them through.
- Group inshād, Firqat ʿIbād al-Raḥmān, Alhayah TV ↗ Prayer in the first 75 seconds; other pieces follow. Recites «سيدنا محمد الذي».
- Salâtı Tefriciye, seven repeats (Turkish channel) ↗ About 4 minutes. Machine transcript: «سيدنا محمد الذي», with the full closing.
- Selawat Tafrijiyah, Arabic, Rumi and meaning on screen (Malay) ↗ About 12 minutes. Machine transcript: «سيدنا محمد الذي», with the full closing.
- Recited 100 times, Shaykh Aḥmad al-Rifāʿī ↗ About 28 minutes, repeated. Machine transcript: «على نبي».
This edition
We read the prayer from page images of Ibn Ṣaʿd's Rawḍat al-nisrīn (p. 184), Nabhānī's Afḍal al-ṣalawāt (no. 63, p. 111) and Shawāhid al-ḥaqq (no. 51, p. 258), and al-Ghumārī's Irshād al-anām (p. 160), and from machine text of other collections. We have read no manuscript.
The form here is the one people recite, with «سيدنا محمد الذي» and the long closing. It is longer than the earliest text we found, which has «على نبي», lacks «وحسن الخواتيم» and «الكريم», and ends at «وعلى آله وصحبه». The notes on each clause mark where they differ.
See the printed pages: Rawḍat al-nisrīn p. 184 · Afḍal al-ṣalawāt p. 111 · Shawāhid al-ḥaqq (p. 258) · Irshād al-anām (p. 160).
AI The English and the notes are AI, and no person has reviewed them.
AI The vowelling and Latin reading are AI, made by the grammar. We compared the vowels with the vowelled print of Afḍal al-ṣalawāt and with NU Online, and they agree apart from spelling and «الخواتم».
AI The Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Türkçe, Français, Español, اردو, فارسی translations are AI too and unreviewed, and need a native speaker's reading.
The whole prayer: Arabic and Latin reading, to copy or print
al-Ṣalāt al-Nāriyya
الصلاة النارية
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ صَلَاةً كَامِلَةً
وَسَلِّمْ سَلَامًا تَامًّا
عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ
الَّذِي تَنْحَلُّ بِهِ الْعُقَدُ
وَتَنْفَرِجُ بِهِ الْكُرَبُ
وَتُقْضَى بِهِ الْحَوَائِجُ
وَتُنَالُ بِهِ الرَّغَائِبُ
وَحُسْنُ الْخَوَاتِيمِ
وَيُسْتَسْقَى الْغَمَامُ بِوَجْهِهِ الْكَرِيمِ
وَعَلَى آلِهِ وَصَحْبِهِ
فِي كُلِّ لَمْحَةٍ وَنَفَسٍ
بِعَدَدِ كُلِّ مَعْلُومٍ لَكَ
Allāhumma ṣalli ṣalātan kāmilatan
wa-sallim salāman tāmman
ʿalā sayyidinā Muḥammadin
alladhī tanḥallu bihi l-ʿuqadu
wa-tanfariju bihi l-kurabu
wa-tuqḍā bihi l-ḥawāʾiju
wa-tunālu bihi r-raghāʾibu
wa-ḥusnu l-khawātīmi
wa-yustasqā l-ghamāmu bi-wajhihi l-karīmi
wa-ʿalā ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi
fī kulli lamḥatin wa-nafasin
bi-ʿadadi kulli maʿlūmin laka
Arabic: the form people recite, compared across printed works (see This edition). Vowelling and Latin reading: AI (Claude Opus 5.5, 5 Nov 2026), not reviewed by a person.
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