A illness & hardship supplication recorded in the Abu Dawud 5090 tradition.
Allahumma 'afini fi badani, Allahumma 'afini fi sam'i, Allahumma 'afini fi basari, la ilaha illa anta. Allahumma inni a'udhu bika minal-kufri wal-faqr, Allahumma inni a'udhu bika min 'adhabil-qabr, la ilaha illa anta
O Allah, grant me well-being in my body. O Allah, grant me well-being in my hearing. O Allah, grant me well-being in my sight. There is no god but You. O Allah, I seek refuge in You from disbelief and poverty. O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the punishment of the grave. There is no god but You.
Source: Abu Dawud 5090. Sunan Abi Dawud is one of the six canonical hadith collections; most of its supplication narrations are authentic or hasan.
Recite this when you visit someone who's unwell. The Prophet (peace be upon him) taught it as a quiet reassurance — illness, when borne with patience, expiates sins.
Sunan Abi Dawud is one of the six canonical hadith collections (Kutub al-Sittah). Imam Abu Dawud as-Sijistani (d. 275 AH) focused on legal and devotional hadith. Most narrations are sound; he noted weak ones explicitly when included. Illness, in the Prophetic understanding, is a means of expiation — sins fall away with the patient bearing of pain the way leaves fall from a tree. The duas for illness ask for healing while affirming the meaning beneath the suffering.
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