Musnad Ahmad 14707
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حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ عِيسَى وَأَبُو سَعِيدٍ يَعْنِي مَوْلَى بَنِي هَاشِمٍ الْمَعْنَى وَهَذَا لَفْظُ إِسْحَاقَ قَالَا حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي الْمَوَالِ الْمَدَنِيُّ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُنْكَدِرِ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يُعَلِّمُنَا الِاسْتِخَارَةَ كَمَا يُعَلِّمُنَا السُّورَةَ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ يَقُولُ: إِذَا هَمَّ أَحَدُكُمْ بِالْأَمْرِ فَلْيَرْكَعْ رَكْعَتَيْنِ مِنْ غَيْرِ الْفَرِيضَةِ، ثُمَّ لِيَقُلِ: اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْتَخِيرُكَ بِعِلْمِكَ وَأَسْتَقْدِرُكَ بِقُدْرَتِكَ وَأَسْأَلُكَ مِنْ فَضْلِكَ الْعَظِيمِ، فَإِنَّكَ تَقْدِرُ وَلَا أَقْدِرُ وَتَعْلَمُ وَلَا أَعْلَمُ وَأَنْتَ عَلَّامُ الْغُيُوبِ، اللَّهُمَّ فَإِنْ كُنْتَ تَعْلَمُ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ يُسَمِّيهِ بِاسْمِهِ خَيْرًا لِي فِي دِينِي وَمَعَاشِي قَالَ أَبُو سَعِيدٍ: وَمَعِيشَتِي وَعَاقِبَةِ أَمْرِي فَاقْدُرْهُ لِي وَيَسِّرْهُ، ثُمَّ بَارِكْ لِي فِيهِ، اللَّهُمَّ وَإِنْ كُنْتَ تَعْلَمُهُ شَرًّا لِي فِي دِينِي وَمَعَاشِي وَعَاقِبَةِ أَمْرِي فَاصْرِفْنِي عَنْهُ وَاصْرِفْهُ عَنِّي وَاقْدُرْ لِي الْخَيْرَ حَيْثُ كَانَ، ثُمَّ رَضِّنِي بِهِ. وَقَالَ أَبُو سَعِيدٍ: وَعَاقِبَةِ أَمْرِي فَاقْدُرْهُ لِي وَيَسِّرْهُ وَبَارِكْ لِي فِيهِ، اللَّهُمَّ وَإِنْ كُنْتَ تَعْلَمُهُ شَرًّا لِي فِي دِينِي وَمَعَاشِي وَعَاقِبَةِ أَمْرِي فَاصْرِفْنِي عَنْهُ وَاصْرِفْهُ عَنِّي وَاقْدُرْ لِي الْخَيْرَ حَيْثُ كَانَ، ثُمَّ رَضِّنِي بِهِ
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Chain of narrators
- Isḥāq b. ʿĪsá and ʾAbū Saʿīd / a freed slave of Banī Hāshim al-Maʿná Wahadhā Lafẓ Isḥāq
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū al-Mawāl al-Madanī
- 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." (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 1538)
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- Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal
منكر
machine translationRejected (munkar)
in مسند أحمد, p. 14862 - 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 مسند أحمد, p. 14862 - 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 مسند أحمد, p. 14862
Other narrations of this report
Sahih al-Bukhari 7390Sunan an-Nasa'i 3253Sunan Ibn Majah 1383
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 الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابيعن
- trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil)d. 130 AH, or 131 AHمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُنْكَدِرِثقة فاضلحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes erredd. 173 AHعَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي الْمَوَالِ الْمَدَنِيُّصدوق ربما أخطأحدثنا
- truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes erredd. 197 AHوَأَبُو سَعِيدٍ يَعْنِي مَوْلَى بَنِي هَاشِمٍصدوق ربما أخطأحدثنا
- Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his viewأحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة
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