03-How to erase your sins?, by Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali

How to erase his sins? ( Expiations, Degrees and Invocations ), by Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali, Pocket Format

My Lord -may He be exalted and magnified- said to me: O Muhammad!
What are atonements ?
I replied: It consists of moving for Friday prayers, sitting in mosques after prayers and perfecting minor ablutions despite the inconvenience.

He said: What are the degrees ?
I answered: It is to offer meals, to speak kindly and to pray while people are asleep.
He said to me: Make your invocations !
I said: My God! I ask You to give me to do good, to avoid all that is reprehensible, to love the needy, to forgive me and have mercy on me. And if You want to impose a discord on a people, I ask You to call me back to You without undergoing this test. And I implore Your love, the love of the one who loves You and the love of every work that brings me closer to You!».

Ibn Rajab, Zayn al-Din Abû l-Faraj

Hanbalite traditionnist and jurisconsult. Originally from Baghdad where he was born in 736/1335, he studied hadith in Damascus, Hijaz, Jerusalem and Cairo, he received different idjazas from his masters. He taught in Damascus where he died in 795/1392.