Al-Kafi · Hadith 6

The Book of Supplication · The Word in the Morning and Evening · Volume 2, book 2, chapter 48, Hadith 6

Original Arabic text

6ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلِيِّ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ جَمِيعاً عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ شِهَابٍ وَسُلَيْمٍ الْفَرَّاءِ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ مَنْ قَالَ هَذَا حِينَ يُمْسِي حُفَّ بِجَنَاحٍ مِنْ أَجْنِحَةِ جَبْرَئِيلَ (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) حَتَّى يُصْبِحَ أَسْتَوْدِعُ الله الْعَلِيَّ الأعْلَى الْجَلِيلَ الْعَظِيمَ نَفْسِي وَمَنْ يَعْنِينِي أَمْرُهُ أَسْتَوْدِعُ الله نَفْسِيَ الْمَرْهُوبَ الْمَخُوفَ الْمُتَضَعْضِعَ لِعَظَمَتِهِ كُلُّ شَيْ‏ءٍ ثَلاثَ مَرَّاتٍ.

Published English translation

6. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from Ahmad ibn Muhammad and Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father all from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from ‘Umar ibn Shahab and Sulaym al-Farra’ from a man from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “Whoever says in the evening, ‘I leave myself and all that is important to me, in trust of Allah, the Most High, the Most Glorious, the Most Great, from Whose greatness all things fear, worry and waver,’ three times, he will be wrapped up in a wing of the wings of Jibril, the Archangel, for protection until morning.’”

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: مرسل

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/226)

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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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