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Al-Kafi · Hadith 23

The Book of Supplication · Concise Supplications for Worldly Needs and the Hereafter · Volume 2, book 2, chapter 60, Hadith 23

Original Arabic text

23 - عنه، عن أحمد بن محمد، عن الحسين بن سعيد، عن النضر بن سويد، عن ابن سنان، عن حفص، عن محمد بن مسلم قال: قلت له: علمني دعاء فقال: فأين أنت عن دعاء الالحاح، قال: وما دعاء الالحاح؟ فقال: " اللهم رب السماوات السبع وما بينهن ورب العرش العظيم ورب جبرئيل وميكائيل وإسرافيل ورب القرآن العظيم ورب محمد خاتم النبيين، إني أسألك بالذي (3) تقوم به السماء وبه تقوم الأرض وبه تفرق بين الجمع وبه تجمع بين المتفرق وبه ترزق الاحياء وبه أحصيت عدد الرمال ووزن الجبال وكيل البحور " ثم تصلي على محمد وآل محمد، ثم تسأله حاجتك وألح في الطلب.

Published English translation

23. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al-Husayn ibn Sa’id from al-Nadr ibn Suwayd from ibn Sinan from Hafs from Muhammad ibn Muslim who has said the following: “I asked him to instinct me with a supplication. He asked, ‘Why do you not pray with the supplication of pleading before Allah for help?’ I (the narrator) then asked, ‘What is the supplication of pleading before Allah for help?’ The Imam said say, ‘O Lord, the Lord of the seven heavens and all that is in between, the Lord of the great Throne, Lord of Jibril (Gabriel), Michael and Israfeil, Lord of the great Quran, and Lord of Muhammad, the last of the prophets, I plead before You through that with which You keep the heavens, with which You keep the earth, with which You disperse the gatherings and place together what is scattered, with which You provide sustenance to the living, with which You keep the counts of sands, the weight of the mountains and the measurement of the oceans.’ Then ask Allah’s al-Salat (favor) for Muhammad and his family and ask for help and insist pleading before Allah for help.’”

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: صحيح

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/460)

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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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Al-Kafi, volume 2, Thaqalayn digital edition / Muhammad Sarwar translation
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Muhammad Sarwar
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