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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

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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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