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al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 690

✧ The prayer of seeking guidance (istikhara)

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قَالَ أَبُو يَعْلَى: حَدَّثَنَا زُهَيْرٌ، ثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، ثَنَا أَبِي، عَنِ ابْنِ إِسْحَاقَ، حَدَّثَنِي عِيسَى بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَطَاءٍ، عَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ، عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ ؓ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ يَقُولُ:

إِذَا أَرَادَ أَحَدُكُمْ أَمْرًا، فَلْيَقُلِ: اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْتَخِيرُكَ بِعِلْمِكَ، وَأَسْتَقْدِرُكَ بِقُدْرَتِكَ، وَأَسْأَلُكَ مِنْ فَضْلِكَ الْعَظِيمِ، فَإِنَّكَ تَقْدِرُ وَلَا أَقْدِرُ، وَتَعْلَمُ وَلَا أَعْلَمُ، وَأَنْتَ عَلَّامُ الْغُيُوبِ. اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ كَانَ كَذَا وَكَذَا - فِي الْأَمْرِ الَّذِي تُرِيدُ - خَيْرًا لِي فِي دِينِي، وَمَعِيشَتِي، وَعَاقِبَةِ أَمْرِي، وَإِلَّا فَاصْرِفْهُ عَنِّي وَاصْرِفْنِي عَنْهُ، ثُمَّ اقْدُرْ لِي الْخَيْرَ أَيْنَمَا كَانَ، وَلَا حَوْلَ وَلَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللهِ الْعَلِيِّ الْعَظِيمِ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Abū Yaʿlá
  2. Zuhayr
  3. Yaʿqūb b. Ibrāhīm
  4. my father
  5. Ibn Isḥāq
  6. ʿĪsá b. ʿAbdullāh b. Mālik
  7. Muḥammad b. ʿAmr b. ʿAṭāʾ
  8. ʿAṭāʾ b. Yasār
  9. Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī
  10. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

✧ When one of you intends a matter, let him say: 'O Allah, I seek Your guidance by Your knowledge, and I seek Your power by Your might, and I ask You of Your immense bounty. For You have power and I have none, and You know and I do not, and You are the Knower of the unseen. O Allah, if this matter—whatever it is that I intend—is good for me in my religion, my livelihood, and my ultimate end, then decree it for me and facilitate it for me and bless me in it. But if it is bad for me in my religion, my livelihood, and my ultimate end, then turn it away from me and turn me away from it, and decree for me good wherever it may be, and make me content with it.' There is no might nor power except with Allah, the Most High, the Most Great.

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Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynīSound Chainin المطالب العالية, p. 690hadithunlocked

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Ibn Majah 1383Sahih Ibn Hibban 885al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 11508Musnad Abi Ya'la 1341al-Matalib al-'Aliyah 691

Narrators

  1. Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī
    He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. 63 AH, or 64 AH, or 65 AH, or 74 AH
    أَبُو سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيُّله ولأبيه صحبة
    عن
  2. ʿAṭāʾ b. Yasār al-Hilālī
    Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), a man of admonitions and worship.d. 94 AH, or 97 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH
    عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍثقة فاضل ، صاحب مواعظ وعبادة
    عن
  3. Muḥammad b. ʿAmr b. ʿAṭāʾ
    trustworthy (thiqah)d. after 120 AH
    مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ عَطَاءٍثقة
    عن
  4. ʿĪsá b. ʿAbdullāh b. Mālik
    acceptable (maqbūl)
    عِيسَى بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَالِكٍمقبول
    حدثني
  5. Muḥammad b. Isḥāq
    Truthful (ṣadūq), he practiced concealment (yudallis), and was accused of Shiʿism (tashayyuʿ) and of belief in free will (qadar)d. ʿAmr b. ʿAlī said, and Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. ʿArafah: 150 AH, Muḥammad b. Saʿd said elsewhere: al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said: 151 AH, he said: and his son said: 150 AH. Aḥmad b. Khālid al-Wahbī said: 151 AH, Yaḥyā b. Maʿīn said, and ʿAlī Ibn al-Madīnī, and Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā al-Sājī: 152 AH, khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ said: 153 AH, 152 AH
    ابْنِ إِسْحَاقَصدوق يدلس ، ورمي بالتشيع والقدر
    عن
  6. Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd Abū Isḥāq al-Zuhrī
    Trustworthy (thiqah) and an authority (ḥujjah); he was spoken about without any valid ground for criticism.d. 182 AH, or 183 AH, or 184 AH, or 185 AH
    أَبِيثقة حجة ، تُكُلِّم فيه بلا قادح
    حدثنا
  7. Yaʿqūb
    Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil).d. 208 AH
    يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَثقة فاضل .
    حدثنا
  8. Abū Khaythamah
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 234 AH, also said: 232 AH
    زُهَيْرٌثقة ثبت
    حدثنا
  9. Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī
    d. 307 AH
    أَبُو يَعْلَى

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