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Al-Kafi · Hadith 4

The Book of Supplication · Supplications for Sustenance · Volume 2, book 2, chapter 53, Hadith 4

Original Arabic text

4ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ حَمَّادِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ عُمَرَ الْيَمَانِيِّ عَنْ زَيْدٍ الشَّحَّامِ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ ادْعُ فِي طَلَبِ الرِّزْقِ فِي الْمَكْتُوبَةِ وَأَنْتَ سَاجِدٌ يَا خَيْرَ الْمَسْئُولِينَ وَيَا خَيْرَ الْمُعْطِينَ ارْزُقْنِي وَارْزُقْ عِيَالِي مِنْ فَضْلِكَ الْوَاسِعِ فَإِنَّكَ ذُو الْفَضْلِ الْعَظِيمِ.

Published English translation

4. Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from Hammad ibn ‘Isa from Ibrahim ibn ‘Umar al-Yamani from Zayd al-Shahham from abu Ja’far (a.s.) who has said the following: “When pleading for sustenance in the obligatory prayer during prostration say, ‘O the best to plead to, O the best provider, grant me and my family sustenance from Your vast munificence; You are the Great, the Generous.’”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: حسن كالصحيح

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/386)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: صحيح

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 1, p. 147

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Muhammad Sarwar
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