Hisn al-Muslim 16
((سُبْحانَكَ اللَّهُمَّ وَبِحَمْدِكَ، وَتَبارَكَ اسْمُكَ، وَتَعَالَى جَدُّكَ، وَلاَ إِلَهَ غَيْرُكَ)).
(Subhanakal-lahumma wabihamdika watabarakas-muka wataAAala jadduka wala ilaha ghayruk.)
(How perfect You are O Allah, and I praise You. Blessed be Your name, and lofty is Your position and none has the right to be worshipped except You.)
Source: Hisn al-Muslim · Reference: Hisn al-Muslim 16
Translation: Hisn al-Muslim (Fortress of the Muslim), Sa'id al-Qahtani — see site-wide attribution
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Four statements, none of them a request. The first sets perfection beside praise. The second turns to His name and calls it blessed. The third turns to His position and calls it lofty. The fourth leaves description for a denial that admits no exception: none has the right to be worshipped except You. The movement runs from what the speaker offers, through two things belonging to Him, to a statement about everyone else.
Nasa'i records this from Abu Sa'eed, said at the opening of the prayer.
Only the closing clause mentions anything outside Him, and it does so in order to exclude it. Nothing at all is requested across the four statements.
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The English of it is: “How perfect You are O Allah, and I praise You. Blessed be Your name, and lofty is Your position and none has the right to be worshipped except You.” Four statements, none of them a request.
Transliterated: “Subhanakal-lahumma wabihamdika watabarakas-muka wataAAala jadduka wala ilaha ghayruk.”
It is recorded at Sunan an-Nasai 902.
Nasa'i records this from Abu Sa'eed, said at the opening of the prayer. Only the closing clause mentions anything outside Him, and it does so in order to exclude it.