Al-Kafi · Hadith 2

The Book of Supplication · The One Whose Prayer is Accepted · Volume 2, book 2, chapter 31, Hadith 2

Original Arabic text

2ـ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الأشْعَرِيُّ عَنْ مُعَلَّى بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَلِيٍّ الْوَشَّاءِ عَنْ عَبْدِ الله بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ كَانَ أَبِي (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) يَقُولُ خَمْسُ دَعَوَاتٍ لا يُحْجَبْنَ عَنِ الرَّبِّ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى دَعْوَةُ الإمَامِ الْمُقْسِطِ وَدَعْوَةُ الْمَظْلُومِ يَقُولُ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لأنْتَقِمَنَّ لَكَ وَلَوْ بَعْدَ حِينٍ وَدَعْوَةُ الْوَلَدِ الصَّالِحِ لِوَالِدَيْهِ وَدَعْوَةُ الْوَالِدِ الصَّالِحِ لِوَلَدِهِ وَدَعْوَةُ الْمُؤْمِنِ لأخِيهِ بِظَهْرِ الْغَيْبِ فَيَقُولُ وَلَكَ مِثْلُهُ.

Published English translation

2. Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Ash’ari has narrated from Mu’alla ibn Muhammad from Hassan ibn Ali al-Washsha’ from ‘Abd Allah ibn Sinan from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “My father (a.s.) has said, ‘Five kinds of prayers are not barred from the Lord, the Most Blessed, the Most High: the prayer of an Imam who is just in his dealings, the prayer of an oppressed as Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, has said, “I will revenge for you even if it may come after a long time,” the prayer of a virtuous son for his parents, the prayer of a virtuous father for his son and the prayer of a believing person for his brother (in belief) in his absence to whom it is said, ‘You will have as your reward just like what you asked for him.’”

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: ضعيف على المشهور

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/171)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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