Abu Sa'id reported Allah's Messenger ﷺ as saying that if anyone says three times when going to bed, "I ask the forgiveness of Allah than whom there is no god, the Living, the Eternal, and I turn in repentance to Him," Allah will forgive him his sins, even if they are like the foam of the sea, or in number like the sand which is accumulated,* or as many as the leaves of the trees, or as numerous as the days of this world. *The word is ‘alij. Some say ‘Alij is a place in the desert, the translation being ‘the sand of ‘Alij; others treat it as translated above. Tirmidhi transmitted it, saying this is a gharib tradition.