Al-Kafi · Hadith 5

The Book of Supplication · (Supplication for) Fortification and Protection · Volume 2, book 2, chapter 57, Hadith 5

Original Arabic text

5ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَمِ عَنْ قُتَيْبَةَ الأعْشَى قَالَ عَلَّمَنِي أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ قُلْ بِسْمِ الله الْجَلِيلِ أُعِيذُ فُلاناً بِالله الْعَظِيمِ مِنَ الْهَامَّةِ وَالسَّامَّةِ وَاللامَّةِ وَالْعَامَّةِ وَمِنَ الْجِنِّ وَالإنْسِ وَمِنَ الْعَرَبِ وَالْعَجَمِ وَمِنْ نَفْثِهِمْ وَبَغْيِهِمْ وَنَفْخِهِمْ وَبِ‏آيَةِ الْكُرْسِيِّ ثُمَّ تَقْرَؤُهَا ثُمَّ تَقُولُ فِي الثَّانِيَةِ بِسْمِ الله أُعِيذُ فُلاناً بِالله الْجَلِيلِ حَتَّى تَأْتِيَ عَلَيْهِ.

Published English translation

5. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from Ali ibn al-Hakam from Qutaybah al-‘A’Sha’ who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.) instructed me with this supplication: ‘In the name of Allah, the glorious, I seek protection for so and so with (the help of) Allah, the Most Great, against all small living things (vermin, insect, germs, viruses and so forth), the venomous things, evil eyes, plague, the evil of Jinn and human beings of Arabs and non- Arabs, against their sorcery, transgression and against their spell, with reading verse 255 of Chapter 2 and in the second time reading the above supplication say, “In the name of Allah, I seek protection for so and so, with (the help of) Allah, the Glorious One ... to the end of the above supplication.’”

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: صحيح

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/438)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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