Al-Kafi · Hadith 4

The Book of Supplication · Praise and Glorification · Volume 2, book 2, chapter 27, Hadith 4

Original Arabic text

4ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ وَحُمَيْدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ جَمِيعاً عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ الْمِيثَمِيِّ عَنْ يَعْقُوبَ بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) يَقُولُ قَالَ رَسُولُ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) إِنَّ فِي ابْنِ آدَمَ ثَلاثَمِائَةٍ وَسِتِّينَ عِرْقاً مِنْهَا مِائَةٌ وَثَمَانُونَ مُتَحَرِّكَةٌ وَمِنْهَا مِائَةٌ وَثَمَانُونَ سَاكِنَةٌ فَلَوْ سَكَنَ الْمُتَحَرِّكُ لَمْ يَنَمْ وَلَوْ تَحَرَّكَ السَّاكِنُ لَمْ يَنَمْ وَكَانَ رَسُولُ الله (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) إِذَا أَصْبَحَ قَالَ الْحَمْدُ لله رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ كَثِيراً عَلَى كُلِّ حَالٍ ثَلاثَمِائَةٍ وَسِتِّينَ مَرَّةً وَإِذَا أَمْسَى قَالَ مِثْلَ ذَلِكَ.

Published English translation

4. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father and Humayd ibn Ziyad from al- Hassan ibn Muhammad all from Ahmad ibn al-Hassan al-Mithami from Ya’qub ibn Shu’ayb who has said the following: “I heard Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) saying, ‘The Messenger of Allah has said that in a son of Adam there are three hundred sixty veins of which one hundred eighty are moving and one hundred eighty are quiet. If a moving vein becomes quiet one cannot sleep and if a quiet one moves one cannot sleep’. The Messenger of Allah in the morning would say, ‘All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds, a great deal of praise in all conditions, three hundred sixty times and so also he would do in the evening.’”

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: حسن موثق

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/145)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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