al-Mu'jam al-Awsat 937
✧ Ahmad b. Mas'ud al-Maqdisi
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وَعَنِ الْقَاسِمِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ:
عَلَّمَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ الِاسْتِخَارَةَ، فَقَالَ: يَقُولُ أَحَدُكُمُ: اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْتَخِيرُكَ بِعِلْمِكَ، وَأَسْتَقْدِرُكَ بِقُدْرَتِكَ، وَأَسْأَلُكَ مِنْ فَضْلِكَ، فَإِنَّكَ تَقْدِرُ وَلَا أَقْدِرُ، وَتَعْلَمُ وَلَا أَعْلَمُ وَأَنْتَ عَلَّامُ الْغُيُوبِ، فَإِنْ كَانَ كَذَا وَكَذَا يُسَمِّي الْأَمْرَ بِاسْمِهِ، خَيْرًا لِي فِي دِينِي وَفِي مَعِيشَتِي، وَخَيْرًا لِي فِي عَاقِبَةِ أَمْرِي، وَخَيْرًا لِي فِي الْأُمُورِ كُلِّهَا، فَاقْدُرْهُ لِي، وَبَارِكْ لِي فِيهِ، وَإِنْ كَانَ غَيْرُ ذَلِكَ خَيْرًا لِي، فَاقْدُرْ لِيَ الْخَيْرَ حَيْثُ كَانَ وَرَضِّنِي بِهِ
Translation
Chain of narrators
- al-Qāsim b. Muḥammad
- ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar
✧ The Messenger of God ﷺ taught us the istikhāra prayer. He said: “Let one of you say: O God, I seek Your guidance by Your knowledge, and I seek Your power by Your might, and I ask You of Your abundant favor. 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. If this matter—naming it by its name—is good for me in my religion and in my livelihood, and good for me in the outcome of my affair, and good for me in all matters, then decree it for me and bless me in it. And if other than that is better for me, then decree for me the good wherever it may be and make me content with it.”
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- Abū al-Ḥasan Nur al-Dīn ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr al-Haythamī
فيه من لم أجد من ترجمه
machine translationIn it is someone for whom I did not find anyone who has provided a biographical entry.
in المعجم الأوسط, p. 937
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- One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AHعَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثرعن
- trustworthy (thiqah)d. 101 AH, or 102 AH, or 106 AH, or 107 AH, or 108 AH, or 109 AH, 112 AH, or 117 AHالْقَاسِمِ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍثقةعن
- d. between 131 AH and 140 AHالحكم بن عبد الله بن سعد الأيليعن
- truthful (ṣadūq), jurist, accused of Qadarism (qadar)حفص بن غيلان الهمدانيصدوق فقيه ، رمي بالقدرنا
- Truthful (ṣadūq) with some errors (awhām)d. 212 AH or 213 AH or 214 AHعمرو بن أبي سلمة التنيسيصدوق له أوهامنا
- d. between 271 AH and 280 AHأحمد بن مسعود المقدسيحدثنا
- d. 360 AHالطبراني
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