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Al-Kafi · Hadith 11

The Book of Supplication · Prayer When Leaving One ’s Home · Volume 2, book 2, chapter 50, Hadith 11

Original Arabic text

11ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ الْقَاسِمِ عَنْ صَبَّاحٍ الْحَذَّاءِ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ يَا صَبَّاحُ لَوْ كَانَ الرَّجُلُ مِنْكُمْ إِذَا أَرَادَ سَفَراً قَامَ عَلَى بَابِ دَارِهِ تِلْقَاءَ وَجْهِهِ الَّذِي يَتَوَجَّهُ لَهُ فَقَرَأَ الْحَمْدَ أَمَامَهُ وَعَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَعَنْ شِمَالِهِ وَالْمُعَوِّذَتَيْنِ أَمَامَهُ وَعَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَعَنْ شِمَالِهِ وَقُلْ هُوَ الله أَحَدٌ أَمَامَهُ وَعَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَعَنْ شِمَالِهِ وَآيَةَ الْكُرْسِيِّ أَمَامَهُ وَعَنْ يَمِينِهِ وَعَنْ شِمَالِهِ ثُمَّ قَالَ اللهمَّ احْفَظْنِي وَاحْفَظْ مَا مَعِي وَسَلِّمْنِي وَسَلِّمْ مَا مَعِي وَبَلِّغْنِي وَبَلِّغْ مَا مَعِي بِبَلاغِكَ الْحَسَنِ الْجَمِيلِ لَحَفِظَهُ الله وَحَفِظَ مَا مَعَهُ وَسَلَّمَهُ وَسَلَّمَ مَا مَعَهُ وَبَلَّغَهُ وَبَلَّغَ مَا مَعَهُ أَ مَا رَأَيْتَ الرَّجُلَ يُحْفَظُ وَلا يُحْفَظُ مَا مَعَهُ وَيَبْلُغُ وَلا يَبْلُغُ مَا مَعَهُ وَيَسْلَمُ وَلا يَسْلَمُ مَا مَعَهُ.

Published English translation

11. A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Musa ibn al- Qasim from Sabbah al-Hadhdha’ from abu al-Hassan (a.s.) who has said the following: “O Sabbah, if any of you likes to go on a journey he should stand at the door of his house facing the direction of his journey and recite Chapter one of the Holy Quran to his front, right and left. Chapters 114 and 113 to his front, right and left. Chapter 112 to his front, right and left, and verse 255 of Chapter two to his front, right and left, then say, ‘O Lord, protect me and that which is with me, keep me safe and that which is with me, help me and that which is with me arrive my destination in a good and beautiful manner.’ Allah will grant him protection, safety, good and beautiful arrival to him and that which is with him. Have you ever thought that a man is protected, is safe, arrives well but not that which is with 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 (12/329)

Assessment transcribed from the source's named scholar and reference. No new grading or consensus is asserted; differing entries remain separate.

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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Muhammad Sarwar
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