Al-Kafi · Hadith 1

The Book of Supplication · Concise Supplications for Worldly Needs and the Hereafter · Volume 2, book 2, chapter 60, Hadith 1

Original Arabic text

1 - عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا، عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسى، عَنْ إِسْمَاعِيلَ بْنِ سَهْلٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ جُنْدَبٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ :عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ عليه‌السلام قَالَ: قُلِ : "اللهُمَّ اجْعَلْنِي أَخْشَاكَ كَأَنِّي أَرَاكَ وَأَسْعِدْنِي بِتَقْوَاكَ وَلَاتُشْقِنِي بِنَشْطِي لِمَعَاصِيكَ وَخِرْ [لِي] فِي قَضَائِكَ وَبَارِكْ لِي فِي قَدَرِكَ حَتّى لَاأُحِبَّ تَأْخِيرَ مَا عَجَّلْتَ وَلَاتَعْجِيلَ مَا أَخَّرْتَ وَاجْعَلْ غِنَايَ فِي نَفْسِي وَمَتِّعْنِي بِسَمْعِي وَبَصَرِي وَاجْعَلْهُمَا الْوَارِثَيْنِ مِنِّي وَانْصُرْنِي عَلى مَنْ ظَلَمَنِي وَأَرِنِي فِيهِ قُدْرَتَكَ يَا رَبِّ وَأَقِرَّ بِذلِكَ عَيْنِي"

Published English translation

1. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from Isma’Il ibn Sahl from ‘Abd Allah ibn Jundab from his father from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who has said the following: “Say, ‘O Lord, make me fear You as if I see You and help me to be pious before You, do not make me miserable because of my energy to disobey You, chose me for Your determination, bless me with Your measure so I will not love the delay of that which You have hastened and the quickening of what You have delayed. Make me self reliant, benefit me from my hearing, and eyes and make them inherent in me, support me against those who have done injustice to me, and show me Your power in it, O Lord, and make it a delight to my eyes.”’

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: ضعيف

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/448)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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