A illness & hardship supplication from the Sunnah, narrated in Sahih al-Bukhari.
Allahumma Rabban-nas, adh-hibil ba's, ishfi antash-shafi, la shifa'a illa shifa'uk, shifa'an la yughadiru saqama
O Allah, Lord of mankind, remove the suffering. Heal, for You are the Healer. There is no healing except Your healing — a healing that leaves no illness behind.
Source: Sahih al-Bukhari 5743. This narration appears in Sahih al-Bukhari — the most rigorously authenticated hadith collection in Sunni Islam.
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.
Sahih al-Bukhari is considered the most authentic collection of hadith after the Quran. Imam al-Bukhari (d. 256 AH) spent sixteen years selecting the roughly 7,000 narrations in this collection from over 600,000 he had examined, applying strict criteria to chain authenticity. 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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