The
Arabic phrase
ʿalayhi as-salām , which translates as "
peace be upon him" is a conventionally
complimentary phrase or
durood attached to the names of the prophets in
Islam. The English phrase is also given the abbreviation
pbuh in writing. An extended variant of the phrase reads [lit.] "prayer of God be upon him and his family and peace", and it is often abbreviated
SAWS in writing in an English-language context. The Arabic phrase is given the name
ṣalawāt. The phrase is encoded as a
ligature at
Unicode codepoint