Al-Kafi · Hadith 17

The Book of the Excellence of the Holy Quran · The Excellence of the Holy Quran · Volume 2, book 3, chapter 13, Hadith 17

Original Arabic text

17ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ بَكْرٍ عَنْ صَالِحٍ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ الْجَعْفَرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ مَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ فِي حَدِّ الصِّبَا يَتَعَهَّدُ فِي كُلِّ لَيْلَةٍ قِرَاءَةَ قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الْفَلَقِ وَقُلْ أَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ النَّاسِ كُلَّ وَاحِدَةٍ ثَلاثَ مَرَّاتٍ وَقُلْ هُوَ الله أَحَدٌ مِائَةَ مَرَّةٍ فَإِنْ لَمْ يَقْدِرْ فَخَمْسِينَ إِلا صَرَفَ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ عَنْهُ كُلَّ لَمَمٍ أَوْ عَرَضٍ مِنْ أَعْرَاضِ الصِّبْيَانِ وَالْعُطَاشَ وَفَسَادَ الْمَعِدَةِ وَبُدُورَ الدَّمِ أَبَداً مَا تُعُوهِدَ بِهَذَا حَتَّى يَبْلُغَهُ الشَّيْبُ فَإِنْ تَعَهَّدَ نَفْسَهُ بِذَلِكَ أَوْ تُعُوهِدَ كَانَ مَحْفُوظاً إِلَى يَوْمِ يَقْبِضُ الله عَزَّ وَجَلَّ نَفْسَهُ.

Published English translation

17. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from Ahmad ibn Bakr from Salih from Sulayman al-Ja’fari who has said the following: “I heard abu al-Hassan (a.s.) saying, ‘If a child maintains reading every night Chapters 113, 114 three times each and Chapter 112 one hundred times or, if he cannot do it, fifty times Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, diverts all health problems of childhood and dehydration, stomach disorder and blood pressure all the time, as long as he maintains such readings until his old age. If he would maintain it or is made to maintain it, he will remain safe until the time Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Holy, will take his soul away.’”

Narrator and transmission

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: ضعيف

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/512)

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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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