Chapters on Supplication

Ali bin Abi Talib said: “The most of what the Messenger of Allah supplicated with during the afternoon at Arafat while standing was: ‘O Allah to You is the praise like the one You say, and better than what we say. O Allah, for You is all my Salat, my sacrifice, my living and my dying. And to You is my return, and to You, my Lord, belongs my inheritance. O Allah, indeed, I seek refuge in You from the punishment of the grave, the whispering of the chest, and the diving of the affair. O Allah, indeed, I seek refuge in You from the evil of what the wing brings (Allahumma Lakal-Hamdu, Kalladhi Taqulu, Wa Khairan Mimma Naqul. Allahumma Laka Salati Wa Nusuki, Wa Mahyaya Wa Mamati, Ilaika Mabi, Wa Laka, Rabbi, Turath. Allahumma Inni A’udhu Bika Min Adhabil-Qabri, Wa Waswasatis-Sadri, WA Shatatil-Amr. Allahumma Inni A’udhu Bika Min Sharri Ma Taji’u Bihir-Rih).”

Abu Umamah narrated: “The Messenger of Allah supplicated with many supplications of which we did not preserve a thing. We said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, you supplicated with many supplications of which we did not preserve a thing.’ He said: ‘Should I not direct you to what will include all of that? That you say: O Allah, we ask You from the good of what Your Prophet Muhammad asked You for, and we seek refuge in You from the evil of that which Your Prophet Muhammad sought refuge in You from, and You are the one from Whom aid is sought, and it is for You to fulfill, and there is no might or power except by Allah (Allahumma Inna Nasa’luka Min Khairi Ma Sa’alaka Minhu Nabiyyuka Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam, Wa Na’udhu Bika Min Sharri Masta’adha Minhu Nabiyyuka Muhammad, Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam, Wa Antal-Musta’anu Wa Alaikal-Balagh, Wa La Hawla Wa La Quwwata Illa Billah.)’”

Shahr bin Hawshab said: “I said to Umm Salamah: ‘O Mother of the Believers! What was the supplication that the Messenger of Allah said most frequently when he was with you?” She said: ‘The supplication he said most frequently was: “O Changer of the hearts, make my heart firm upon Your religion (Ya Muqallibal-Qulub, Thabbit Qalbi Ala Dinik).’” She said: ‘So I said: “O Messenger of Allah, why do you supplicate so frequently: ‘O Changer of the hearts, make my heart firm upon Your religion.’ He said: ‘O Umm Salamah! Verily, there is no human being except that his heart is between Two Fingers of the Fingers of Allah, so whomsoever He wills He makes steadfast, and whomever He wills He causes to deviate.’”

Sulaiman bin Buraidah narrated that his father said: “Khalid bin Al-Walid al Makhzumi complained to the Prophet saying: ‘O Messenger of allah, I do not sleep at night due to insomnia.’ So Allah’s Prophet said: ‘When you go to your bed, say: I Allah, Lord of the Seven Heavens and what they have shaded, Lord of the earths and what they carry, Lord of the Shyatin and those they have misguided, be for me a Protector against the evil of Your creation, all of them together, so that none of them should transgress against me, or oppress me, mighty is the one who seeks protection in You, and glorified if Your praise, and there is none worthy of worship other than You, and there is none worthy of worship except You. (Allahumma Rabbas-Samawatis-Sab’i Wa Ma Azallat, Wa Rabbal-Ardina Wa Ma Aqallat, Wa Rabbash-Shayatini Wa Ma Adallat, Kun Li Jaran Min Sharri Khalqika Kullihim Jami’an An Yafruta Alayya, Azza Jaruka Wa Jalla Thana’uka, Wa La Ilaha Ghairuka Wa La Ilaha Illa Anta).”

Anas bin Malik said: “Whenever a matter would distress him, the Prophet would say: ‘O Living, O Self-Sustaining Sustainer! Inr Your Mercy do I seek relief (Ya Hayyu Ya Qayyum, Bi-Rahmatika Astaghith).’”And with this chain, that he said: “The Messenger of Allah said: ‘Be constant with: “O Possessor of Majesty and Honor. (Ya Dhal-Jalali Wal-Ikram).’”

Anas narrated that the Prophet said: “Be constant with: ‘O Possessor of Majesty and Honor (Ya Dhal-Jalali Wal-Ikram).’”

Abu Umamah Al-Bahili said: “I heard the Messenger of Allah saying: “Whoever goes to his, while in a state of purity and remembering Allah, until slumber overtakes him, he shall not get up at any hour of the night and ask Allah for something from the good of the world and the Hereafter except that Allah shall grant it to him.’”

Mu'adh bin Jabal narrated that the Prophet (ﷺ) heard a man supplicating, saying: "O Allah! Verily, I ask You for the bounty's completion (Allahumma, Inni As'aluka Tamaman-Ni'mah." So he said: What thing is the bounty's completion?" He said: "Indeed, part of the bounty's completion is the entrance into Paradise, and salvation from the Fire." And he (ﷺ) heard a man while he was saying: "O Possessor of Majesty and Honor (Ya Dhal-Jalali Wal-Ikram)" So he said: "You have been responded to, so ask." And the Prophet (ﷺ) heard a man while he was saying: "O Allah, indeed, I ask You for patience (Alahumma, Inni Asa'lukas-Sabr)" He said "You have asked Allah for trial, so ask him from Al-'Afiyah." (Another route up to) this chain, with similar.

Amr bin Shu’aib narrated from his father, from his grandfather, that the Messenger of Allah said: “When one of you becomes frightened during sleep, then let him say: ‘I seek refuge in Allah’s Perfect Words from His anger, His punishment, and the evil of His creatures, from the whisperings of the Shayatin, and that they should come (A’udhu Bikalimatillahit-Tammati Min Ghadabihi Wa Iqabihi Wa Sharri Ibadih, Wa Min Hamzatish-Shayatini Wa An Yahdurun).’ For verily, they shall not harm him.’”He said: “So Abdullah bin Amr used to teach it to those of his children who attained maturity, and those of them who did not, he would write it on a sheet and then hang it around his neck.”

Abu Rashid Al-Hubrani said: “I came to Abdullah bin Amr and said to him: ‘Report something to me that you heard from the Messenger of Allah,’ so he set forth before me a scroll and said: ’This is what the Messenger of Allah wrote for me.’” He said: “So I looked in it and found in it: ‘Indeed, Abu Bakr As-Siddiq, may Allah be pleased with him, said: “O Messenger of Allah, teach me what to say at morning and afternoon.” He said: “O Abu Bakr, say: ‘O Allah, Creator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of the unseen and the seen, there is none worthy of worship except You, Lord of everything and its Owner, I seek refuge in You from the evil of my soul and from the evil of Shaitan and his Shirk, or that I should do some evil to myself or bring it upon a Muslim (Allahumma Fatiras-Samawati Wal-Ardi, Alimal-Ghaibi Wash-Shahdati, La Ilaha Illa Anta, Rabba Kulli Shai’in Wa Malikahu, A’udhu Bika Min Sharri Nafsi Wa Min Sharrish-Shaitani Wa Shirkihi, Wa An Aqtarifa Ala Nafsi Su’an, Aw Ajurrahu Ila Muslim).’”

Amr bin Murrah said: “I heard Abu Wa’il say: ‘Abdullah bin Mas’ud said’ and I said to him: ‘Did you hear it from Abdullah?’ He said: ‘Yes.’ And he narrated it in Marfu form that he said: ‘There is none with more Ghirah than Allah, and due to this He prohibited the lewd sins, that which is apparent of them and that which is hidden. And there is none to whom praise is more beloved than Allah, and due to this, He praised Himself.”

Abdullah bin Amr narrated from Abu Bakr As-Siddiq that he said: “O Messenger of Allah, teach me a supplication that I may supplicate with in my Salat.” He said: “Say: ‘O Allah, I have wronged myself much, and none forgives sins except You. So forgive me with forgiveness from You, and have mercy upon me, indeed, You are the Forgiving, the Merciful (Allahumma Inni Zalamtu Nafsi Zulman Kathiran Wa La Yaghfirudh-Dhunuba Illa Anta Faghfirli Maghfiratan Min Indika Warhamni Innaka Antal-Ghafurur-Rahim)”

Al-Muttalib bin Abi Wada’ah said: “Al-Abbas came to the Messenger of Allah and it is as if he heard something, so the Prophet stood upon the Minbar and said: ‘Who am I?’ They said: ‘You are the Messenger of Allah, upon you be peace.’ He said: ‘I am Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Abdul-Muttalib, indeed Allah created the creation, and He put me in the best group of them, then He made them into two groups, so He put me in the best group of them, the He made them into tribes, so He put me in the best of tribe, then He made them into houses, so He put me in the best of them in tribe and lineage.’”

Anas bin Malik narrated that: the Prophet passed by a tree with dry leaves, so he struck it with his staff, making the leaves fall. Then he said: “Indeed, all praise is due to Allah, (Al-Hamdulillah)’ ‘glory to Allah, (Subhan Allah)’ none has the right to be worshipped by Allah, (La Ilaha Illallah)’ and ‘Allah is the greatest (Allahu Akbar)’ cause the sins to fall from the worshipper, just as the leaves of this tree fall.”

Umarah bin Shabib As-Saba’i narrated that the Messenger of Allah said: “Whoever says: none has the right to be worshipped but Allah, Alone, without partner, to Him belongs all that exists, and to Him belongs the praise, He gives life and causes death, and He is powerful over all things, (La Ilaha Illallahu Wahdahu La Sharika Lahu Lahul-Mulku Wa Lahul-Hamdu, Yuhyi Wa Yumitu Wa Huwa ala Kulli Shai’in Qadir)’ ten times at the end of Al-Maghrib - Allah shall send for him protectors to guard him from Shaitan until he reaches morning, and Allah writes for him ten good deeds, Mujibat, and He wipes from him ten of the destructive evil deeds, and it shall be for him the equal of freeing ten believing slaves.”

Zirr bin Hubaish said: “I came to Safwan bin Assal Al Muradi to ask him about wiping over the Khuff, so he said: ‘What has brought you, I Zirr?’ So I said: ‘The desire for knowledge.’ So he said: ‘Indeed, the angels lower their wings for the seeker of knowledge, out of pleasure with what he is seeking.’ So I said: ‘Indeed there is some doubt in my chest concerning wiping over the Khuff after defecation and urination, and you were a man from the Companions of the Prophet, so I came to you to ask you: Have you heard him (ﷺ) mention anything concerning that?’ He said: ‘Yes, he used to order us, that when we were travelers’ - or - ‘in travel, to not remove our Khuff for three days and nights except, from sexual impurity, but not from defecation, urination, and sleep.’” He said: “Have you heard him mention anything concerning love?” He said: “Yes. We were with the Messenger of Allah on a journey when a Bedouin with a loud voice called upon him (saying): ‘O Muhammad!’ So the Messenger of Allah responded to him with a voice similar to him (saying): ‘Come.’ So we said to him: ‘Lower your voice for you are with the Prophet, and you have been prohibited from this.’ He said: ‘By allah, I will not lower (my voice).’ The Bedouin said: ‘A man is with whomever he loves on the Day of Judgement.” So he did not cease talking with us, until he mentioned a gate in the direction of the west with the width of seventy years journey - or a rider would travel its width - for forty or seventy years.” Sufyan (one of the narrators) said: “In the direction of Ash-Sham, Allah created it the Day He created the heavens and the earth, open - that is, for repentance. It shall not be locked until the sun rises through it.”

Zirr bin Hubaish said: “I came to Safwan bin Assal Al-Muradi so he said to me: ‘What has brought you, O Zirr?’ So I said: ‘The desire for knowledge.’ So he said: ‘It has been conveyed to me that the angels lower their wings for the seeker of knowledge, out of pleasure with what he is doing.’” He said: “So I said to him: ‘Indeed there is something wavering’” - or - “some doubt in my chest concerning wiping over the Khuff after defecation. So have you retained anything from the Messenger of Allah concerning that?’ He said: ‘Yes, when we were travelers, he (ﷺ) used to order us not to remove our Khuff for three days and nights, except from sexual impurity, but not from defecation, urination, and sleep.’”He said: “So I said: ‘So have you memorized anything from the Messenger of Allah concerning love?’ He said: ‘Yes, we were in one of our journeys with the Messenger of Allah when a man, a harsh, foolish Bedouin, who had been at the end of the group, called him with a loud voice, saying:”O Muhammad! O Muhammad!” So the people said to him “Mah! Indeed, you have been prohibited from this.” So the Messenger of Allah responded to him with similar to his voice: “Come.” So he said: “A man loves a people but he has not reached them?’” He said: ‘So the Messenger of Allah said: “A man is with whomever he loves.”Zirr said: “He did not cease reporting to me until he had reported that Allah, the Mighty and Sublime, has appointed a gate in the west - its width is the distance of a seventy-year journey - for repentance: it shall not be locked until the sun rises from its direction, and that is the Statement of Allah, Blessed be He and Most High, of the Ayah: The Day some of the signs of your Lord come, no soul shall be benefited by its believing.”

Ibn Umar narrated that the Prophet said: “Indeed Allah accepts the repentance of a slave as long as (his soul does not reach his throat).”

Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said: “Allah is more delighted with the repentance of one of you, than one of you is, when finding his lost animal.”

Abu Sirmah narrated from Abu Ayyub, that: when death reached him, he said: “I have concealed something I heard from the Messenger of Allah from you. I heard the Messenger of Allah saying: ‘If you did not sin, Allah would create a creation that would sin, so He will forgive them.’”

Anas bin Malik narrated that the Messenger of Allah said: “Allah, Blessed is He and Most High, said: ‘O son of Adam! Verily as long as you called upon Me and hoped in Me, I forgave you, despite whatever may have occurred from you, and I did not mind. O son of Adam! Were your sins to reach the clouds of the sky, then you sought forgiveness from Me, I would forgive you, and I would not mind. So son of Adam! If you came to me with sins nearly as great as the earth, and then you met Me not associating anything with Me, I would come to you with forgiveness nearly as great as it.’”

Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said: “Allah created a hundred mercies, and He placed one mercy among his creation, they show mercy to one another by it, and there are ninety-nine mercies with Allah.”

Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said: “If the believer knew what is with Allah of punishment, none would hope for Paradise, and if the disbeliever knew what is with Allah of mercy, none would despair of (attaining) Paradise.”

Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said: “Verily, Allah when He created the creation, He wrote with His Hand concerning Himself, that: ‘My mercy prevails over My wrath.’”

Anas said that: the Prophet entered the Masjid and there was a man who had performed Salat and was supplicating. He was saying in his supplication: “O Allah, none has the right to be worshipped but Allah, You are the One Who gives blessings, Originator of the heavens and the earth, POssessor of glory and generosity (Allahumma La Ilaha Illallah, Antal-Mannan, Badi’as-Samawati Wal-Ard, Dhal-Jalali Wal Ikram).” So the Prophet said: “Do you know what he has supplicated Allah with? He has supplicated to Allah by His Greatest Name, the one which if He Is called upon by it, He responds, and when He is asked by it, He gives.”

Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah said: “May the man before whom I am mentioned - and he does not send Salat upon me - be humiliated. And may a man upon whom Ramadan enters and then passes, before he is forgiven, be humiliated. And may a man whose parents reached old age in his presence, and they were not a cause for his entrance to Paradise, be humiliated”

Ali bin Abi Talib narrated that the Messenger of Allah said: “The stingy person is the one before whom I am mentioned, and he does not send Salat upon me.”

Abdullah bin [Abi] Awfa narrated that the Messenger of Allah used to say: “O Allah, cool my heart with snow and hail and cold water. O Allah, cleanse my heart of sins as You cleanse a white garment of filth (Allahumma Barrid Qalbi Bith-Thalji Wal-Baradi Wal-Ma’il-Barid. Allahumma Naqqi Qalbi Min Al-Khataya Kama Naqaitath-Thawbal-Abyada Min Ad-Dannas).”

Ibn Umar narrated that the Messenger of Allah said: “Whomsoever of you the door of supplication is opened for, the doors of mercy have been opened for him. And Allah is not asked for anything - meaning: - more beloved to Him, than being asked for Al-Afiyah.”And the Messenger of Allah said: “The supplication benefits against that which strikes and that which does not strike, so hold fast, O worshippers of Allah, to supplication.”

That was narrated to us by Al-Qasim bin Dinar Al-Kufi (who said): “Ishaq bin Mansur narrated to us, from Isra’il” with this(Another chain) Bilal narrated that the Messenger of Allah said: “Hold fast to Qiyam Al-Lail, for it is the practice of the righteous before you, and indeed Qiyam Al-Lail is a means of nearness to Allah, a means of prevention from sin, an expiation for bad deeds, and a barrier for the body against disease.”