Al-Kafi · Hadith 18

The Book of Supplication · The Word in the Morning and Evening · Volume 2, book 2, chapter 48, Hadith 18

Original Arabic text

18ـ عَلِيٌّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ حَمَّادٍ عَنْ حَرِيزٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ يَقُولُ بَعْدَ الصُّبْحِ الْحَمْدُ لله رَبِّ الصَّبَاحِ الْحَمْدُ لله فَالِقِ الإصْبَاحِ ثَلاثَ مَرَّاتٍ اللهمَّ افْتَحْ لِي بَابَ الأمْرِ الَّذِي فِيهِ الْيُسْرُ وَالْعَافِيَةُ اللهمَّ هَيِّئْ لِي سَبِيلَهُ وَبَصِّرْنِي مَخْرَجَهُ اللهمَّ إِنْ كُنْتَ قَضَيْتَ لأحَدٍ مِنْ خَلْقِكَ عَلَيَّ مَقْدُرَةً بِالشَّرِّ فَخُذْهُ مِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيْهِ وَمِنْ خَلْفِهِ وَعَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَعَنْ شِمَالِهِ وَمِنْ تَحْتِ قَدَمَيْهِ وَمِنْ فَوْقِ رَأْسِهِ وَاكْفِنِيهِ بِمَا شِئْتَ وَمِنْ حَيْثُ شِئْتَ وَكَيْفَ شِئْتَ.

Published English translation

18. Ali has narrated from his father from Hammad from Hariz from Zurara from abu Ja’far (a.s.) who has said the following: “One in the morning should say, ‘All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the morning, all praise belongs to Allah, who opens the morning, [ three times]. O Lord, open for me the door of the matter in which there is felicitation and good health, O Lord, prepare its way for me and show me the way out of it. O Lord, if You have decided that any of Your creatures should over power me in an evil way, seize him from all directions, front, back, right, left, above and below and suffice me by whatever means You like, whenever and however You want.’”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: حسن كالصحيح

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/255)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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