Fortress of the Muslim — Hisnul Muslim — collects the authentic supplications the Prophet ﷺ taught, arranged by occasion and traced to the Qur'an or a sound hadith. Waking and sleeping, leaving and entering the house, eating, travelling, illness, distress, debt, fear, rain, the masjid, the market. It covers an ordinary day almost completely.
The Edition That Actually Gets Carried
This is the pocket paperback: 3.35 x 4.6 inches, about the size of a passport. That is the whole argument for it. A supplication book is useful in proportion to how often it is within reach, and a book this size goes into a shirt pocket, a handbag, a backpack, a glovebox or a suitcase and stays there.
It is also the edition people buy several of at a time — one for the car, one for the desk drawer, one for the bag — and the one masajid and Islamic schools order in bulk for new Muslims, Ramadan gift bags and da'wah tables. At this size and price it is the most-given Islamic book we stock after the mushaf itself.
| Edition | Page Size | Binding | Paper | Best For |
|---|
| Large Print Paperback | 5.5 x 8 in | Paperback | Regular | Home, masjid, weak eyesight, teaching |
| Pocket Paperback (this item) | 3.35 x 4.6 in | Paperback | Regular | Pocket, bag, glovebox, giving away |
| Pocket Hardback | 3.8 x 4.8 in | Semi-hardback | Fine | Daily carry that has to survive, gifting |
All editions carry identical content. The differences are size, binding and paper. If you read Arabic diacritics or have weak eyesight, take the large-print edition; if the book is going to be carried daily for years, the pocket hardback holds up better.
A Note from the Compiler
Shaykh Sa'id bin Ali bin Wahaf Al-Qahtani explains in his introduction that this book is an abridgement of his larger work, Adh-Dhikr wad-Du'a wal-'Ilaj bir-Ruqyah min al-Kitab was-Sunnah. To make it small and easily portable he selected only the section on words of remembrance, gave the text of each supplication rather than the full hadith, and limited himself to one or two references apiece. Readers wanting the narrator of a particular hadith or fuller sourcing should return to the original work.
He closes by asking Allah, by His beautiful Names and sublime attributes, to accept the effort as done sincerely for His sake, and to benefit its readers, its printers and everyone who has had a hand in distributing it.
Related Reading
(55) 
