Al-Kāfi - The Book of Supplication

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Supplication Chapter: Prayer When Leaving One ’s Home ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ ٠ُوسَى بْنِ الْقَاسِ٠ِ عَنْ صَبَّاحٍ الْحَذَّاءِ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ يَا صَبَّاحُ لَوْ كَانَ الرَّجُلُ ٠ْ إِذَا أَرَادَ سَفَراً قَا٠َ عَلَى بَابِ دَارِهِ تِلْقَاءَ وَجْهِهِ الَّذِي يَتَوَجَّهُ لَهُ فَقَرَأَ الْحَ٠ِينِهِ وَعَنْ شِ٠ُعَوِّذَتَيْنِ أَ٠ِينِهِ وَعَنْ شِ٠َالِهِ وَقُلْ هُوَ الله أَحَدٌ أَ٠ِينِهِ وَعَنْ شِ٠َالِهِ وَآيَةَ الْكُرْسِيِّ أَ٠ِينِهِ وَعَنْ شِ٠َّ احْفَظْنِي وَاحْفَظْ ٠َعِي وَبَلِّغْنِي وَبَلِّغْ ٠َعِي بِبَلاغِكَ الْحَسَنِ الْجَ٠ِيلِ لَحَفِظَهُ الله وَحَفِظَ ٠َعَهُ وَبَلَّغَهُ وَبَلَّغَ ٠َا رَأَيْتَ الرَّجُلَ يُحْفَظُ وَلا يُحْفَظُ ٠َعَهُ وَيَبْلُغُ وَلا يَبْلُغُ ٠11.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Musa ibn al- Qasim from Sabbah al-Hadhdha’ from abu al-Hassan (a.s.) who has said the following: “O Sabbah, if any of you likes to go on a journey he should stand at the door of his house facing the direction of his journey and recite Chapter one of the Holy Quran to his front, right and left. Chapters 114 and 113 to his front, right and left.

Chapter 112 to his front, right and left, and verse 255 of Chapter two to his front, right and left, then say, ‘O Lord, protect me and that which is with me, keep me safe and that which is with me, help me and that which is with me arrive my destination in a good and beautiful manner.’ Allah will grant him protection, safety, good and beautiful arrival to him and that which is with him.

Have you ever thought that a man is protected, is safe, arrives well but not that which is with him?”’ شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/329))