Al-Kafi · Hadith 19

The Book of Supplication · Asking Favors from Allah for the Holy Prophet, Muhammad and his Family, recipient of divine supreme covenant · Volume 2, book 2, chapter 20, Hadith 19

Original Arabic text

19ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ عَنْ مُفَضَّلِ بْنِ صَالِحٍ الأسَدِيِّ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ هَارُونَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ إِذَا صَلَّى أَحَدُكُمْ وَلَمْ يَذْكُرِ النَّبِيَّ وَآلَهُ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) فِي صَلاتِهِ يُسْلَكُ بِصَلاتِهِ غَيْرَ سَبِيلِ الْجَنَّةِ وَقَالَ رَسُولُ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) مَنْ ذُكِرْتُ عِنْدَهُ فَلَمْ يُصَلِّ عَلَيَّ دَخَلَ النَّارَ فَأَبْعَدَهُ الله وَقَالَ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) وَمَنْ ذُكِرْتُ عِنْدَهُ فَنَسِيَ الصَّلاةَ عَلَيَّ خُطِئَ بِهِ طَرِيقَ الْجَنَّةِ.

Published English translation

19. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from Muhammad ibn Ali from Mufaddal ibn Salih al-‘Asadi from Muhammad ibn Harun from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “Whenever anyone of you prays and does not mention the Holy Prophet and his family in his prayer, his prayer will be taken to a direction other than that toward paradise. The Messenger of Allah has said, ‘If a person before whom my name is mentioned does not ask from Allah al-Salat (favors) for me, he will enter the fire and Allah will move him away.’ He also has said, ‘If a person, before whom my name is mentioned, forgets to ask from Allah al-Salat for me, he will get lost on the way of paradise.’”

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: ضعيف

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/105)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: Catalogue non-inclusion note (not an authenticity grade)

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

Source records non-inclusion in this scholar's selection; this is not itself a weak or authentic grade.

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