Al-Kafi · Hadith 28

The Book of Prayer · Prayers after Salah (a special form of prayer) · Volume 3, book 4, chapter 32, Hadith 28

Original Arabic text

28ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مَهْزِيَارَ قَالَ كَتَبَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ إِلَى أَبِي الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) إِنْ رَأَيْتَ يَا سَيِّدِي أَنْ تُعَلِّمَنِي دُعَاءً أَدْعُو بِهِ فِي دُبُرِ صَلَوَاتِي يَجْمَعُ الله لِي بِهِ خَيْرَ الدُّنْيَا وَالآخِرَةِ فَكَتَبَ (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) تَقُولُ أَعُوذُ بِوَجْهِكَ الْكَرِيمِ وَعِزَّتِكَ الَّتِي لاَ تُرَامُ وَقُدْرَتِكَ الَّتِي لاَ يَمْتَنِعُ مِنْهَا شَيْ‏ءٌ مِنْ شَرِّ الدُّنْيَا وَالآخِرَةِ وَمِنْ شَرِّ الأوْجَاعِ كُلِّهَا.

Published English translation

28. Ali ibn Muhammad has narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Ali ibn Mahziyar who has said the following: “Muhammad ibn Ibrahim wrote to abu al-Hassan (a.s.), ‘My master, if you deem it proper, teach me a prayer that I can read after every Salah (prayer) so Allah will grant me good, both in this and the next life.’ The Imam wrote to him, ’Say, O Lord, I seek refuge with Your gracious presence, Your unassailable majesty and Your unstoppable power, against the evil of this world as well as those in the next life and against the misfortune of all illnesses.” (The following chapters are best explained by fatwa.)

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: ضعيف على المشهور

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/182)

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

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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