Al-Kafi · Hadith 1

The Book of Supplication · (Supplication for) Fortification and Protection · Volume 2, book 2, chapter 57, Hadith 1

Original Arabic text

1ـ حُمَيْدُ بْنُ زِيَادٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ غَيْرِ وَاحِدٍ عَنْ أَبَانٍ عَنِ ابْنِ الْمُنْذِرِ قَالَ ذُكِرَتْ عِنْدَ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) الْوَحْشَةُ فَقَالَ أَ لا أُخْبِرُكُمْ بِشَيْ‏ءٍ إِذَا قُلْتُمُوهُ لَمْ تَسْتَوْحِشُوا بِلَيْلٍ وَلا نَهَارٍ بِسْمِ الله وَبِالله وَتَوَكَّلْتُ عَلَى الله وَأَنَّهُ مَنْ يَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى الله فَهُوَ حَسْبُهُ إِنَّ الله بَالِغُ أَمْرِهِ قَدْ جَعَلَ الله لِكُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ قَدْراً اللهمَّ اجْعَلْنِي فِي كَنَفِكَ وَفِي جِوَارِكَ وَاجْعَلْنِي فِي أَمَانِكَ وَفِي مَنْعِكَ فَقَالَ بَلَغَنَا أَنَّ رَجُلاً قَالَهَا ثَلاثِينَ سَنَةً وَتَرَكَهَا لَيْلَةً فَلَسَعَتْهُ عَقْرَبٌ.

Published English translation

1. Humayd ibn Ziyad has narrated from al-Hassan ibn Muhammad from more than one person from Aban from ibn al-Mundhir who has said the following: “Once I mentioned fear before Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) and he said, ‘I should tell you something that after saying it you will not be frightened during the day or night, say, “In the name of Allah, with (the help of) Allah, I place my trust before Allah; whoever places his trust before Allah, He is suffices him and Allah completes his affairs. Allah has assigned a measure for everything. O Lord, place me under Your protection, in Your neighborhood, include me in Your amnesty and under Your protection.’ I (the narrator) heard the case of a man who had practiced this for thirty years. He did not say it one night and a scorpion bit him.’”

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: مجهول

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/436)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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