Hayatus Sahabah - The Lives of the Sahabah - Part 3

THE LIVES OF THE SAHABAH @,GW+ ("01-3) 397
remember them." Rasulullaah @%% said, "Should I not teach you a du'aa that
incorporates all of them?" Rasulullaah then told them to recite:
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"We ask You for every good that Your Nabi Muhammad @& asked You
for and we seek Your protection from everything that Your Nabi
Muhammad @& sought Your protection from. It is only from You that
help can be sought and only You can conclude all matters because
there is no power or might but from ~llaah"(')
Asking for Allaah's Protection
Factors from which Rasulullaah @&% used to Ask
for Allaah's Protection
Hadhrat Anas 4- reports that Rasulullaah used to make Cu'aa saying:
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"0 Allaah! I seek Your protection from helplessness, laziness,
cowardice, extreme old age and miserliness. I also seek Your protection
from punishment in the grave and from the tribulations of life and
death"
Another narration adds the words:
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"...(and I seek Your protection from) the burden of debts and from the
tyranny of men"(2)
Hadhrat Aa'isha l2BUW reports that Rasulullaah @@$ used to include the
following words in his du'aa:
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"0 Allaah! 1 seek Your protection from the evil of what I do and from
the evil of what I do not do"(3)
Hadhrat Abdullaah bin Umar k?3Gw narrates that amongst the du'aas that
Rasulullaah made was:
"0 Allaah! I seek Your protection from losing Your bounties, from a
reverse in well-being. from sudden calamities and from all forms of
(1) Tirmidhi (Vo1.2 Pg.190). Bukhaari has reported a similar narration In his Adab (Pg.99).
(2) Bukhaari and Muslim.
(3) Muslim.