Hisn al-Muslim · 119 chapters

Fortress of the Muslim, chapter by chapter

Hisn al-Muslim on your phone: each chapter with the book’s Arabic, a transliteration, the meaning in English and each entry’s reference.

Waking, sleeping and the night

5 chapters

Clothes and the home

5 chapters

Purity and the mosque

8 chapters

The prayer

13 chapters

Worry, hardship and protection

14 chapters

Illness, death and grief

11 chapters

Wind, rain and the new moon

7 chapters

Food and fasting

9 chapters

Family, friends and other people

18 chapters

Travel

10 chapters

Hajj, Umrah and sacrifice

8 chapters

Remembrance, praise and forgiveness

11 chapters

The Fortress of the Muslim, and its author

A pocket book of remembrance. Hisn al-Muslim, the Fortress of the Muslim, is a small collection of duas and remembrance compiled by Sa‘id bin ‘Ali bin Wahf al-Qahtani from the Quran and the hadith collections, arranged by the moments of a Muslim’s day and life, from waking up (Sahih al-Bukhari 6312) to visiting graves (Sahih Muslim 975).

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How this index works

Every chapter, one tap away. Each chapter has a page with its duas in the book’s Arabic, a transliteration, the meaning in English and the reference for each. The chapter names and the English are our own, written from the Arabic; the published English edition is not used.

An entry is only shown once its reference is confirmed in our source data, so a few short chapters are not listed. For a single dua with its full background, our sister site sayyidulistighfar.com is one example.

Questions about the Fortress of the Muslim

Who wrote the Fortress of the Muslim?

Sa‘id bin ‘Ali bin Wahf al-Qahtani compiled it from the Quran and the hadith collections; its Arabic title is Hisn al-Muslim. Its first chapter is on waking up (Sahih al-Bukhari 6312).

How many chapters are listed here?

119 of the book’s 132 chapters, with 241 entries between them. A chapter is shown once at least one of its entries has a reference confirmed in our source data.

Is the English the published translation?

No. The chapter names, the English meanings and the transliterations are our own, written from the Arabic; the published English edition of the book is not used.

Duas by need

To find a dua by what you are going through rather than by chapter, the dua collection on Muslims Around the World is arranged that way.