A illness & hardship supplication from the Sunnah, narrated in Sahih Muslim.
Bismillah (3x). A'udhu billahi wa qudratihi min sharri ma ajidu wa uhadhiru (7x)
In the name of Allah (3 times). I seek refuge in Allah and in His power from the evil of what I find and what I fear (7 times). Recite while placing the hand on the place of pain.
Source: Sahih Muslim 2202. This narration appears in Sahih Muslim, alongside Sahih al-Bukhari among the highest-authenticity hadith sources.
Read this dua over yourself or someone in pain, placing your hand on the spot. The wording is direct: Allah is the Healer, and there is no healing besides His.
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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