A illness & hardship supplication from the Sunnah, narrated in Sahih Muslim.
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un. Allahumma ajurni fi musibati, wa akhlif lee khayran minha
Indeed, to Allah we belong and to Him we shall return. O Allah, reward me in my calamity and give me something better than it in exchange.
Source: Sahih Muslim 918. This narration appears in Sahih Muslim, alongside Sahih al-Bukhari among the highest-authenticity hadith sources.
Recite this in the moments of distress or anxiety, as a deliberate handing-over of the worry. The Prophet (peace be upon him) used this exact wording for grief, debt, and fear.
Sahih Muslim, compiled by Imam Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (d. 261 AH), is paired with Sahih al-Bukhari as the two most rigorously authenticated hadith collections. Together they form the highest tier of hadith literature. 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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