CHAPTER: Regarding Seeking Refuge.
Narrated Umar ibn al-Khattab: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to seek refuge in Allah from five things; cowardliness, niggardliness, the evils of old age, evil thoughts, and punishment in the grave.
Anas bin Malik said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to say: O Allah, I seek refuge in You from weakness, and laziness, and cowardice, and old age, and I seek refuge in You from the punishment of the grave, and I seek refuge in You from the trails of the life and death.
Anas bin Malik said: I used to serve the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم and often hear him say: O Allah, I seek refuge in You from grief and anxiety, from the hardships of debt, and from being overpowered by men.
Abdullah bin Abbas said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to teach us this supplication as he taught us the surah from the Quran. He would say: O Allah! I seek refuge in You from the punishment of Hell and I seek refuge in You from the punishment of the grave, and I seek refuge from You from the trails of Al-Masihid-Dajjal, and I seek refuge in You from the trials of life and death.
Aishah narrated that the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم would supplicate with the following words: O Allah! I seek refuge in You from the trials of the Fire, and the punishment of the Fire, and from the evils of richness and poverty.
Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to say: O Allah, I seek refuge in Thee from poverty , lack and abasement, and I seek refuge in Thee lest I cause or suffer wrong.
Abdullah bin Umar said that one of the supplications of the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم was: O Allah, I seek refuge in You that Your blessings are lifted, and Your protection (of me) is changed, and in the suddenness of Your punishment, and from all Your anger.
Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to supplicate by saying: O Allah, I seek refuge in Thee from divisiveness, hypocrisy, and evil character.
Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to say: O Allah, I seek refuge in Thee from hunger, for it is an evil bed-fellow; and I seek refuge in Thee from treachery, for it is an evil hidden trait.
Narrated Abu Hurairah: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to say: O Allah, I seek refuge in Thee from four things: Knowledge which does not profit, a heart which is not submissive, a soul which has an insatiable appetite, and a supplication which is not heard.
Anas bin Malik narrated that the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم would say: O Allah, I seek refuge in You from a prayer that is of no benefit.
Farwah bin Nawfal Al-Ashjai asked Aishah the Mother of the Believers, about the supplication of the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم. She replied: He would say: 'O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the evil of what I have done, and from the evil of what I have not done. '
Narrated Shakl ibn Humayd: I said: Messenger of Allah, teach me a supplication. He said: Say: O Allah, I seek refuge in Thee from the evil of what I hear, from the evil of what I see, from the evil of what I speak, from the evil of what I think, and from the evil of my semen (i. e. sexual passion).
Narrated AbulYusr: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to supplicate: O Allah, I seek refuge in Thee from my house falling on me, I seek refuge in Thee from falling into an abyss, I seek refuge in Thee from drowning burning and decrepitude. I seek refuge in Thee from the devil harming me at the time of my death, I seek refuge in Thee from dying in Thy path while retreating, and I seek refuge in Thee from dying of the sting of a poisonous creature.
The aforesaid tradition has also been transmitted by Abu al-Yusr through a different chain of narrators. This version adds: and from sorrow .
Narrated Anas ibn Malik: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم used to say: O Allah, I seek refuge in Thee from leprosy, madness, elephantiasis, and evil diseases.
Narrated Abu Saeed al-Khudri: One day the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم entered the mosque. He saw there a man from the Ansar called Abu Umamah. He said: What is the matter that I am seeing you sitting in the mosque when there is no time of prayer? He said: I am entangled in cares and debts, Messenger of Allah. He replied: Shall I not teach you words by which, when you say them, Allah will remove your care, and settle your debt? He said: Why not, Messenger of Allah? He said: Say in the morning and evening: O Allah, I seek refuge in Thee from care and grief, I seek refuge in Thee from incapacity and slackness, I seek refuge in Thee from cowardice and niggardliness, and I seek in Thee from being overcome by debt and being put in subjection by men. He said: When I did that Allah removed my care and settled my debt.
This tradition has also been transmitted by Al Zuhri through a different chain of narrators. This version has “Abu Bakr said its due is the payment of zakat. ” He used the word “a rope of a Camel”