A illness & hardship supplication from the Sunnah, narrated in Sahih al-Bukhari.
Allahumma inni a'udhu bika minal-hammi wal-hazan, wal-'ajzi wal-kasal, wal-bukhli wal-jubn, wa dala'id-dayni wa ghalabatir-rijal
O Allah, I seek refuge in You from worry and grief, from incapacity and laziness, from miserliness and cowardice, from the burden of debt and from being overpowered by men.
Source: Sahih al-Bukhari 6363. This narration appears in Sahih al-Bukhari — the most rigorously authenticated hadith collection in Sunni Islam.
Say this dua at the news of a calamity — death, loss, hardship. The opening verse is from the Quran; the rest comes from a hadith of Umm Salamah where the Prophet (peace be upon him) promised that whoever says this would be given something better in exchange.
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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