Variations in tashahhud?

[Travis James Lee]

Assalamualaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatu

What all variations of tashahhud and salawat can we recite in Salah?

Jazakallahu Khair

[Abu Hassanain]

Salam

there are about two or three main ones that are narrated and reliable narrations that can be set before the actual tashudud. 
 

A few scholars based on the narration is connecting with Wa Qunut and tashudud  hello adding the names of the 14 in denouncing their enemies it’s a more rare opinion

There are a few very odd tashudud s in Bihar Anwar as well. The most take is a short supplication after.

wallahu Alam 

[Abu Hassanain]

When I have time look in wasil and Faqih I will try to post later or tomorrow

[Travis James Lee]

45 minutes ago, Abu Hassanain said:

When I have time look in wasil and Faqih I will try to post later or tomorrow

Thank you brother 

[Abu Hassanain]

Salam

here wasili shia vol 6 section on tashahudd in 14 chapters 

https://wasail-al-shia.net/s/43

kafi vol 3 

https://thaqalayn.net/chapter/3/4/30
 

Al Faqih 

https://thaqalayn.net/chapter/34/1/46

Edited January 19 by Abu Hassanain
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[Travis James Lee]

1 hour ago, Abu Hassanain said:

Salam

here wasili shia vol 6 section on tashahudd in 14 chapters 

https://wasail-al-shia.net/s/43

kafi vol 3 

https://thaqalayn.net/chapter/3/4/30
 

Al Faqih 

https://thaqalayn.net/chapter/34/1/46

Thank you! May Allah reward you with goodness.

[Travis James Lee]

Would it be permissible to recite:

بسم الله وبالله وَالْحَمْدُ لله وَالْأَسْمَاءُ الْحُسْنَى كُلَّهَا لِلَّهِ

Bismillahi wa billahi walhamdulillahi wal asmaul husna kulluha lillah

"In the name of Allah and by Allah and all praise to Allah and the most beautiful names belong to Allah"?

The reason I ask is because it's very similar to:

بِسْمِ اللهِ وَ بِاللهِ وَ الْحَمْدُ لِلهِ وَ خَيْرُ الأَسماءِ لِلهِ

Bismillahi wa Billahi Walhamdulillahi wa khayrul asma il lillahi 

"In the name of Allah and by Allah and all praise to Allah and good names belong to Allah".

But I for some reason it's easier for me to recite the former.

[Abu Hassanain]

6 hours ago, Travis James Lee said:

Would it be permissible to recite:

بسم الله وبالله وَالْحَمْدُ لله وَالْأَسْمَاءُ الْحُسْنَى كُلَّهَا لِلَّهِ

Bismillahi wa billahi walhamdulillahi wal asmaul husna kulluha lillah

"In the name of Allah and by Allah and all praise to Allah and the most beautiful names belong to Allah"?

The reason I ask is because it's very similar to:

بِسْمِ اللهِ وَ بِاللهِ وَ الْحَمْدُ لِلهِ وَ خَيْرُ الأَسماءِ لِلهِ

Bismillahi wa Billahi Walhamdulillahi wa khayrul asma il lillahi 

"In the name of Allah and by Allah and all praise to Allah and good names belong to Allah".

But I for some reason it's easier for me to recite the former.

Salam

in Of itself that would be fine, unless your Marja is very precautious or literal 

[ServantOfMahdi]

7 hours ago, Travis James Lee said:

Would it be permissible to recite:

بسم الله وبالله وَالْحَمْدُ لله وَالْأَسْمَاءُ الْحُسْنَى كُلَّهَا لِلَّهِ

Bismillahi wa billahi walhamdulillahi wal asmaul husna kulluha lillah

"In the name of Allah and by Allah and all praise to Allah and the most beautiful names belong to Allah"?

The reason I ask is because it's very similar to:

بِسْمِ اللهِ وَ بِاللهِ وَ الْحَمْدُ لِلهِ وَ خَيْرُ الأَسماءِ لِلهِ

Bismillahi wa Billahi Walhamdulillahi wa khayrul asma il lillahi 

"In the name of Allah and by Allah and all praise to Allah and good names belong to Allah".

But I for some reason it's easier for me to recite the former.

Regarding praising Allah at the start of the tashahhud, Imam Ja‘far al-Sadiq (عليه السلام) has said that you can praise Allah with whatever befitting words you choose, there's no restriction regarding words; as for the words of praise mentioned in narrations, like Imam al-Mujahideen Zayd b. Ali (عليه السلام) used to praise Allah in the tashahhud in the words you've mentioned, they're examples for us. As for the slight variations in the wordings with same meanings in different narrations, that most probably occurs due to what the respective narrator remembered of the words, even reliable narrations/narrators preserve the meaning, not the exact wording, of the hadith.

Imam Khamenei likes to use these words for praising Allah in the tashahhud 

الحمد لله كما هو أهله

as it has been reported in hadiths to be the best hamd whose virtues and rewards no angel is capable of recording.

Edited January 19 by ServantOfMahdi

[Travis James Lee]

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Thank y'all both! 

Jazakallahu khair my brothers

[ServantOfMahdi]

@Travis James Lee bārakallāhu fīka wa laka wa ‘alayk 

[ServantOfMahdi]

On 1/19/2026 at 2:59 PM, ServantOfMahdi said:

Imam Khamenei likes to use these words for praising Allah in the tashahhud 

الحمد لله كما هو أهله

as it has been reported in hadiths to be the best hamd whose virtues and rewards no angel is capable of recording.

*Imam Jafar ibn Muhammad [a] said*

“All the angels of heaven who write, cannot note the reward of a person who says Al-h'amdulillaahi kamaa huwa ahluh? Someone asked, Why is it so? Imam ((عليه السلام).) replied, (Angels do not know the reward of this statement so they will say to Allah): O Lord! We do not have the knowledge of unseen. Then God will say, 'You write the statement as My servant says, I will reward him accordingly.”

Sawab al-A`amal, Page 39

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