Imam Zayn al-Abidin) each mid-day in Sha’ban and at the...

The Imam (a.s) instructed him saying, “After you accomplish the obligatory `Isha’ Prayer, you may offer a two Rak’ah prayers in the first of which you should recite Surah al-Fatihah and Surah al-Kafirun and in the second you should recite Surah al-Fatihah and Surah al-Tawhid [Qulhuwallah]. When you accomplish the prayer, you may repeat (the phrase of) Subhanallah’ thirty-three times, (the phrase of) Alhamdulillah’ thirty-three times, and (the phrase of) ‘Allahu-akbar’ thirty-four times.

You may then recite the following supplication: یا من إلیه ملجأُ العِباد فی المهمات …لا قوة إلا بالله NOTE: Check Mafatih al-Jinan for details. Thirteenth : It is recommended to say the supplication narrated by Sheikh al-Ṭūsī and Sayyid Ibn Ṭāwüs after each of two Rak’ahs of the Night Prayer (Salat al-Layl), the Shaf Prayer, and the Witr Prayer. Fourteenth : It is recommended to do the prostrations and say the supplications that are reported from the Holy Prophet (PBUHH).

One of these is that Sheikh al-Ṭūsī has narrated on the authority of Hammād ibn ‘Isä on the authority of Abān ibn Taghlib that Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq (a.s) recounted the following: It was the fifteenth night of Sha’ban when the Holy Prophet (PBUHH) was with ‘A’ishah, his wife. At midnight, the Holy Prophet (PBUHH) left the bed.