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Al-Kafi · Hadith 20

The Book of Supplication · Supplication for Pain, Worries, Sadness and Fear · Volume 2, book 2, chapter 55, Hadith 20

Original Arabic text

20ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ خَالِدٍ عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ يَزِيدَ يَا حَيُّ يَا قَيُّومُ يَا لا إِلَهَ إِلا أَنْتَ بِرَحْمَتِكَ أَسْتَغِيثُ فَاكْفِنِي مَا أَهَمَّنِي وَلا تَكِلْنِي إِلَى نَفْسِي تَقُولُهُ مِائَةَ مَرَّةٍ وَأَنْتَ سَاجِدٌ.

Published English translation

20. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid from ‘Umar ibn Yazid who has said the following: “O the Living, O the Guardian, O the One besides Whom no one deserves to be worshipped, I cry to You for help through Your mercy, suffice me whatever concerns me and do not leave me to myself.” One should say it one hundred times in prostrating position.

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: صحيح

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/426)

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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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