al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 3728
✧ ʿUthmān b. Khālid b. ʿAmr al-Salafī
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حَدَّثَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ خَالِدِ بْنِ عَمْرٍو قَالَ: نَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ الْعَلَاءِ قَالَ: نَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ، عَنْ أَبِي حَنِيفَةَ، عَنْ حَمَّادٍ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، عَنْ عَلْقَمَةَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ:
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ يُعَلِّمُنَا الِاسْتِخَارَةَ فِي الْأَمْرِ كَمَا يُعَلِّمُ أَحَدَنَا السُّورَةَ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ: اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْتَخِيرُكَ بِعِلْمِكَ، وَأَسْتَقْدِرُكَ بِقُدْرَتِكَ وَأَسْأَلُكَ مِنْ فَضْلِكَ، فَإِنَّكَ تَقْدِرُ وَلَا أَقْدِرُ، وَتَعْلَمُ وَلَا أَعْلَمُ، وَأَنْتَ عَلَّامُ الْغُيُوبِ، اللَّهُمَّ إِنْ كَانَ فِي هَذَا الْأَمْرِ خِيرَةٌ فِي دِينِي وَدُنْيَايَ وَعَاقِبَةِ أَمْرِي فَقَدِّرْهُ لِي، وَإِنْ كَانَ غَيْرَ ذَلِكَ خَيْرٌ لِي فَسَهِّلْ لِي الْخَيْرَ حَيْثُ كَانَ، وَاصْرِفْ عَنِّي السُّوءَ وَرَضِّنِي بِقَضَائِكَ
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Chain of narrators
- ʿUthmān b. Khālid b. ʿAmr
- Ibrāhīm b. al-ʿAlāʾ
- Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh
- Abū Ḥanīfah
- Ḥammād
- Ibrāhīm
- ʿAlqamah
- ʿAbdullāh
✧ The Messenger of Allah ﷺ used to teach us istikhārah for a matter just as he taught one of us a sūrah from the Qur'an: “O Allah, I ask You to choose for me by Your knowledge, and I ask You to grant me ability by Your power, and I ask You of Your great bounty; for You are able and I am not able, and You know and I do not know, and You are the Knower of the unseen. O Allah, if there is good in this matter for my religion, my worldly life, and the outcome of my affair, then decree it for me; and if other than that is better for me, then make good easy for me wherever it may be, and turn away evil from me, and make me content with Your decree.”
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