Asking Favors from Allah for the Holy Prophet, Muhammad and his Family, recipient of divine supreme covenant — report 2

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hadith

ORIGINAL ARABIC SOURCE TEXT

2ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ النَّوْفَلِيِّ عَنِ السَّكُونِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلام) قَالَ مَنْ دَعَا وَلَمْ يَذْكُرِ النَّبِيَّ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) رَفْرَفَ الدُّعَاءُ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ فَإِذَا ذَكَرَ النَّبِيَّ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وآلِه) رُفِعَ الدُّعَاءُ.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

2. It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from his father from al- Nawfali from al-Sakuni from Abu ‘Abdillah عليه السلام who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah عليه السلام has said, ‘Whoever prays and does not mention the Holy Prophet, his prayer remains dangled over his head. When he mentions the Holy Prophet only then his prayer is raised up (to heavens).”’

Source & scholarly assessments

Al-Kafi, vol. 2, book 2, chapter 20, report 2

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Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi · ضعيف على المشهور · Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (2/90)

Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi · لم يخرجه · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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Arabic witness SHA-256: 0da27ffbd0745105a7b4d5933464b02b17d8497f09e63d8b9613a18a9d2702b6

Source: Thaqalayn (Stichting Thaqalayn), https://thaqalayn.com/hadith/2/2/20/2. Al-Kafi by al-Kulayni. English translation attributed by the digital catalogue to Muhammad Sarwar. CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. No endorsement implied.