Sunan Abi Dawud 1538
Regarding Istikharah
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ الْقَعْنَبِيُّ وَعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مُقَاتِلٍ خَالُ الْقَعْنَبِيِّ وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عِيسَى الْمَعْنَى وَاحِدٌ قَالُوا حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي الْمَوَالِ حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُنْكَدِرِ أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ جَابِرَ بْنَ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ يُعَلِّمُنَا الاِسْتِخَارَةَ كَمَا يُعَلِّمُنَا السُّورَةَ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ يَقُولُ لَنَا إِذَا هَمَّ أَحَدُكُمْ بِالأَمْرِ فَلْيَرْكَعْ رَكْعَتَيْنِ مِنْ غَيْرِ الْفَرِيضَةِ وَلْيَقُلِ اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْتَخِيرُكَ بِعِلْمِكَ وَأَسْتَقْدِرُكَ بِقُدْرَتِكَ وَأَسْأَلُكَ مِنْ فَضْلِكَ الْعَظِيمِ فَإِنَّكَ تَقْدِرُ وَلاَ أَقْدِرُ وَتَعْلَمُ وَلاَ أَعْلَمُ وَأَنْتَ عَلاَّمُ الْغُيُوبِ اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ كُنْتَ تَعْلَمُ أَنَّ هَذَا الأَمْرَ يُسَمِّيهِ بِعَيْنِهِ الَّذِي يُرِيدُ خَيْرٌ لِي فِي دِينِي وَمَعَاشِي وَمَعَادِي وَعَاقِبَةِ أَمْرِي فَاقْدُرْهُ لِي وَيَسِّرْهُ لِي وَبَارِكْ لِي فِيهِ اللَّهُمَّ وَإِنْ كُنْتَ تَعْلَمُهُ شَرًّا لِي مِثْلَ الأَوَّلِ فَاصْرِفْنِي عَنْهُ وَاصْرِفْهُ عَنِّي وَاقْدُرْ لِيَ الْخَيْرَ حَيْثُ كَانَ ثُمَّ رَضِّنِي بِهِ أَوْ قَالَ فِي عَاجِلِ أَمْرِي وَآجِلِهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- ʿAbdullāh b. Maslamah al-Qaʿnabī and ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Muqātil Khāl al-Qaʿnabī Wamuḥammad b. ʿĪsá al-Maʿná Wāḥid
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū al-Mawāl
- Muḥammad b. al-Munkadir
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to teach us the supplication for isthikharah (seeking what us beneficial from Allah) as he would teach us a surah (chapter) from the Qur'an. He would tell us: When one of you intends to do a work, he should offer two supererogatory rak'ahs of prayer, and then say (at the end of the prayer): "O Allah, I seek Your choice on the better (of the two matters) based upon Your knowledge, and I seek Your decree based upon Your power, and I ask You for Your great bounties. For Indeed, You are the One Who Decrees, and I do not decree, and You know, and I do not know, and You are the Knower of the Unseen. O Allah, if you know this, and You are the Knower of the Unseen. O Allah, if you know this - here he should name exactly what he wishes - is better for me with regard to my religion, and my life, and my afterlife, and the end result of my affairs, then decree it to me, and make it easy for me, and bless me on it. O Allah, and if You know this to be evil for me - and he says just as he said the first time - then avert it for me, and avert me from it. And decree for me good wherever it might be, the make me content with it." A version goes: "If the work is good immediately or subsequently."
Notes
Ibn Maslamah and Ibn 'Isa reported from Muhammad b. al-Munkadir on the authority of Jabir.
قَالَ ابْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ وَابْنُ عِيسَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ ابْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ وَابْنُ عِيسَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْمُنْكَدِرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ
Grades by grader
| al-Albani | Sound | fawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com |
|---|---|---|
| Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-Hamid | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Shuayb al-Arnaut | Sahih | fawazahmed0 |
| Zubair Ali Zai | Sahih Bukhari (1162) | fawazahmed0 |
What scholars said about it
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- Dāraquṭnī
غريب من حديث عبد الرحمن بن أبي الموالي عن محمد عن جابر وهو صحيح عنه
machine translationGharīb (strange) from the hadith of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī al-Mawālī, from Muḥammad, from Jābir, and it is sound (ṣaḥīḥ) from him.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 1533 - Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal
هو منكر ليس يرويه غيره لا بأس به
machine translationIt is objectionable (munkar); no one other than him narrates it. There is no harm in him.
in سنن أبي داود, p. 1533 - Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal
منكر
machine translationRejected (munkar)
in سنن أبي داود, p. 1533
Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 7390Sunan an-Nasa'i 3253Sunan Ibn Majah 1383al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 5557al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Nasa'i) 7701
Narrators
- Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AHجَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيسمع
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 130 AH, or 131 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُنْكَدِرِثقة فاضلحدثني
- truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes erredd. 173 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي الْمَوَالِصدوق ربما أخطأنا
- trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh)d. 224 AHوَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عِيسَىثقة فقيهحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AHأَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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Commentaries
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