Al-Kāfi - The Book of Supplication

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Supplication Chapter: Delay in the Acceptance of Prayer 2ـ عَنْهُ عَنْ أَحْ٠َدَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَ٠َنْصُورٍ الصَّيْقَلِ قَالَ قُلْتُ لأبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠َا دَعَا الرَّجُلُ بِالدُّعَاءِ فَاسْتُجِيبَ لَهُ ثُ٠َّ أُخِّرَ ذَلِكَ إِلَى حِينٍ قَالَ فَقَالَ نَعَ٠َ ذَاكَ لِيَزْدَادَ ٠ِنَ الدُّعَاءِ قَالَ نَعَ٠2.

It is narrated from him (narrator of the Hadith above) from Ahmad from Ali ibn al-Hakam from Mansur al-Sayqal who has said the following: “Once I asked Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) ‘Is it possible that at one time a man supplicates and it is accepted and then is delayed for a period of time?’ The narrator has said that the Imam then said, ‘Yes, it can happen.’ I then asked, ‘Why is that?

Is it because so he will increase his supplication and pleading?’ The Imam said, ‘Yes, that is right.’” جهول - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/82))