Sahih Ibn Hibban 887
✧ The Prayers
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أَخْبَرَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي الْمَوَالِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُنْكَدِرِ عَنْ جَابِرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى 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 بِعَيْنِهِ خَيْرًا لِي فِي دِينِي وَمَعَاشِي وَعَاقِبَةِ أَمْرِي فقدره لي ويسره لي وبارك فيه وإن كان شرا لي في ديني ومعادي ومعاشي وعاقبة أمري فَاصْرِفْهُ عَنِّي وَاصْرِفْنِي عَنْهُ وَقَدِّرْ لِيَ الْخَيْرَ حَيْثُ كَانَ وَرَضِّنِي بِهِ»
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān
- Qutaybah b. Saʿīd
- ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Abū al-Mawāl
- Muḥammad b. al-Munkadir
- Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to teach us the istikharah supplication as he taught us a surah from the Quran, saying, "When one of you intends a matter, let him pray two rak'ahs other than the obligatory, then let him say: O Allah, I seek Your guidance by Your knowledge, and I seek ability by Your power, and I ask You of Your great bounty. For You have power and I have none, and You know and I know not, and You are the Knower of hidden things. O Allah, if You know this matter, naming it specifically, to be good for me in my religion, my livelihood, and the outcome of my affair, then decree it for me, make it easy for me, and bless me in it. And if it is evil for me in my religion, my livelihood, and the outcome of my affair, then turn it away from me and turn me away from it, and decree for me the good wherever it may be, and make me content with it."
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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 صحيح ابن حبان, p. 890 - 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 صحيح ابن حبان, p. 890 - Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal
منكر
machine translationRejected (munkar)
in صحيح ابن حبان, p. 890
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 الْمَوَالِصدوق ربما أخطأحدثنا
- trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 240 AH, or: 241 AHقُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍثقة ثبتحدثنا
- d. 303 AHالْحَسَنُ بْنُ سُفْيَانَأخبرنا
- d. 354 AHابن حبان
Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com
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