On account of your infinite generosity...

On account of your infinite generosity, mercy and magnanimity, intercede for us on the Day of Judgement. O, who has come to all the worlds as a source of mercy! Help Zayn-ul-‘Ābidīn. Who is confined by the party of the oppressors (and beseeches your help). 2. Imam Mālik Imam Mālik’s prominence as one of the four jurists of Islam is well-established.

Once caliph Abū Ja‘far Mansūr visited Medina and he asked Imam Mālik: “While supplicating, should I turn my face to the prayer niche [and turn my back to the Holy Prophet*(Peac Be Up Him and His Household)* ] or should I turn my face to the Holy Prophet*(Peac Be Up Him and His Household)* (and turn my back to the prayer niche)?” On this interrogation, Imam Mālik replied: “(O caliph!) Why do you turn your face from the Holy Prophet*(Peac Be Up Him and His Household)* , as he is the source of mediation for you and for your ancestor Adam (عليه السلام) on the Day of Judgement?

Rather you should (pray and supplicate by) turning towards the Prophet*(Peac Be Up Him and His Household)* and seek his intercession so that he intercedes for you before Allah on the Day of Judgement.

Allah has declared: (O beloved!) And if they had come to you, when they had wronged their souls, and asked forgiveness of Allah, and the Messenger also had asked forgiveness for them, they (on the basis of this means and intercession) would have surely found Allah the Granter of repentance, exteremely Merciful.[1] This incident has been narrated by Qādī ‘Iyād in his ash-Shifā (2:596) with a sound chain of transmission.

Besides, it has been related by a number of other traditionists of impeccable credibility. Subkī in Shifā’-us-siqām fī ziyārat khayr-il-anām, Samhūdī in Khulāsat-ul-wafā, Qastallānī in al-Mawāhib-ul-laduniyyah, Ibn Jamā‘ah in Hidāyat-us-sālik and Ibn Hajar Haythamī in al-Jawhar-ul-munazzam. 3. Imam Qurtubī He has mentioned intermediation in the interpretation of the verse 64 of surah an-Nisā’ in his al-Jāmi‘ li-ahkām-il-Qur’ān (5:265-6).[2] 4.

Imam Hākim In his book al-Mustadrak (2:615) he has mentioned the tradition relating to Adam’s intermediation through the holy Prophet*(Peac Be Up Him and His Household)* and has pronounced it as sound.[3] 5. Imam Bayhaqī He has related in his book Dalā’il-un-nubuwwah (5:489) the tradition in which Adam (عليه السلام) relied on the mediation of the Holy Prophet*(Peac Be Up Him and His Household)* .