Al-Kafi · Hadith 1

The Book of Supplication · One’s Saying: I Plead Before Allah for Forgiveness, No One Deserves to be Worshipped Except Allah, the Living, the Guardian, the Possessor of Glory and Honor and to Him I Return · Volume 2, book 2, chapter 47, Hadith 1

Original Arabic text

1ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ عَبْدِ الصَّمَدِ عَنِ الْحُسَيْنِ بْنِ حَمَّادٍ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ مَنْ قَالَ فِي دُبُرِ صَلاةِ الْفَرِيضَةِ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَثْنِيَ رِجْلَيْهِ أَسْتَغْفِرُ الله الَّذِي لا إِلَهَ إِلا هُوَ الْحَيُّ الْقَيُّومُ ذُو الْجَلالِ وَالإكْرَامِ وَأَتُوبُ إِلَيْهِ ثَلاثَ مَرَّاتٍ غَفَرَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ لَهُ ذُنُوبَهُ وَلَوْ كَانَتْ مِثْلَ زَبَدِ الْبَحْرِ.

Published English translation

1. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from ‘Abd al-Samad from al-Husayn ibn Hammad from abu Ja’far (a.s.) who has said the following: “Whoever after an obligatory prayer and before moving his legs to a second position says, ‘I plead before Allah for forgiveness, no one deserves to be worshipped except Allah, the Living, the Guardian, the Possessor of Glory and Honor and to Him I return,’ three times Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, will forgive his sins even if they are as much as the bubbles of the ocean.’”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: مجهول

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/215)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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