Musnad al-Bazzar 1847

✧ The remainder of the hadith of Zirr

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حَدَّثَنَا الْفَضْلُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ، قَالَ: نَا الْهَيْثَمُ بْنُ جَمِيلٍ، قَالَ: نَا مُبَارَكُ بْنُ فَضَالَةَ، عَنْ عَاصِمٍ، أَحْسَبُهُ، عَنْ زِرٍّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ:

كُنَّا نُعَلَّمُ الِاسْتِخَارَةَ كَمَا نُعَلَّمُ السُّورَةَ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ فَإِذَا أَرَادَ أَحَدُكُمْ أَمْرًا فَلْيَقُلِ: اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْتَخِيرُكَ بِعِلْمِكَ، وَأَسْتَقْدِرُكَ بِقُدْرَتِكَ، وَأَسْأَلُكَ مِنْ فَضْلِكَ الْوَاسِعِ، إِنَّكَ تَقْدِرُ وَلَا أَقْدِرُ، وَتَعْلَمُ وَلَا أَعْلَمُ، وَأَنْتَ عَلَّامُ الْغُيُوبِ، اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ كَانَ هَذَا الْأَمْرُ الَّذِي أُرِيدُ، وَتُسَمِّيهِ خَيْرًا فِي دِينِي، وَخَيْرًا لِي فِي أَمْرِ دُنْيَايَ، وَخَيْرًا لِي فِي عَاقِبَةِ أَمْرِي، فَيَسِّرْهُ لِي - أَحْسَبُهُ قَالَ: فَبَارِكْ لِي فِيهِ، وَإِنْ كَانَ شَرًّا لِي فِي أَمْرِ دِينِي، وَشَرًّا لِي فِي أَمْرِ دُنْيَايَ، وَشَرًّا لِي فِي عَاقِبَةِ - أَحْسَبُهُ قَالَ: أَمْرِي، فَاصْرِفْهُ عَنِّي، وَيَسِّرْ لِي الْخَيْرَ، وَاقْضِ لِي بِهِ، وَرَضِّنِي بِهِ

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Chain of narrators

al-Faḍl b. Yaʿqūb
al-Haytham b. Jamīl
Mubārak b. Faḍālah
ʿĀṣim Aḥsabuh
Zir
ʿAbdullāh

✧ We used to be taught the istikhārah just as we were taught a sūrah from the Qurʾān. When one of you intends a matter, let him say: “O Allah, I seek Your guidance through Your knowledge, and I seek Your power through Your ability, and I ask You of Your immense bounty. You have power and I have none, and You know and I do not know, and You are the Knower of the unseen. O Allah, if this matter which I intend”—and he names it—“is good for my religion, good for me in my worldly affair, and good for me in the outcome of my affair, then facilitate it for me”—I think he said—“and bless me in it. And if it is evil for me in my religious affair, evil for me in my worldly affair, and evil for me in the outcome of”—I think he said—“my affair, then turn it away from me, and facilitate for me the good, and decree it for me, and make me content with it.”

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