Musnad Ahmad 28

Translation

✧ He said to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: Teach me a supplication to call upon in my prayer. He said: Say: O Allah, I have wronged myself greatly, and none forgives sins except You, so forgive me with forgiveness from You and have mercy on me. Indeed, You are the Forgiving, the Merciful.

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Same hadith, other wordings

• Bulughul Maram 317{ أَنَّهُ قَالَ لِرَسُولِ اَللَّهِ - صلى الله عليه وسلم -عَلِّمْنِي دُعَاءً أَدْعُو بِهِ فِي صَلَاتِي. قَالَ قُلْ: " اَللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي ظَلَمْتُ نَفْسِي ظُلْمًا كَثِيرًا, وَلَا يَغْفِرُ اَلذُّنُوبَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ, فَاغْفِرْ لِي مَغْفِرَةً مِ
• Riyadhus Shalihin 1475"قل: اللهم إني ظلمت نفسي ظلمًا كثيرًا، ولا يغفر الذنوب إلا أنت، فاغفر لي مغفرة من عندك، وارحمني، إنك أنت الغفور الرحيم"

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 834Jami' at-Tirmidhi 3531Sunan an-Nasa'i 1302

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   Successor (Caliph) of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ (khalīfat rasūl Allāh ﷺ)d. 13 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقُخليفة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ

   One of the early Companions (sābiqūn), among those who narrated abundantly, and one of the jurist ʿAbdullāhs (al-ʿabādilah)d. 63 AH, or 65 AH, or 68 AH, or 69 AH; also said 67 AH, also said 73 AH, also said 77 AH
   عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِأحد السابقين ، المكثرين من الصحابة ، وأحد العبادلة الفقهاء
   عن
3. 3
   Abū al-Khayr

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh)d. 90 AH
   أَبِي الْخَيْرِثقة فقيه
   عن
4. 4
   Yazīd b. Abī Ḥabīb al-Azdī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a jurist (faqīh), who used to narrate mursal reports (yursil)d. 128 AH
   يَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي حَبِيبٍثقة فقيه ، وكان يرسل
   حدثني
5. 5
   al-Layth b. Saʿd

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a jurist (faqīh), a well-known imamd. 175 AH, or 176 AH, or 177 AH
   لَيْثٌثقة ثبت ، فقيه إمام مشهور
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Ḥajjāj

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), but his memory became confused (ikhtalaṭa) at the end of his life, when he came to Baghdad before his death.d. 205 AH, or 206 AH
   حَجَّاجٌثقة ثبت لكنه اختلط في آخر عمره لما قدم بغداد قبل موته
   حدثنا
7. 7
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   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 view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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