Al-Kāfi - The Book of Supplication

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Supplication Chapter: Supplication for Pain, Worries, Sadness and Fear ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ وَ٠َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠ِيعاً عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ ٠َهْزِيَارَ قَالَ كَتَبَ ٠ْزَةَ الْغَنَوِيُّ إِلَيَّ يَسْأَلُنِي أَنْ أَكْتُبَ إِلَى أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠) فِي دُعَاءٍ يُعَلِّ٠ُهُ يَرْجُو بِهِ الْفَرَجَ فَكَتَبَ إِلَيَّ أَ٠ِهِ دُعَاءً يَرْجُو بِهِ الْفَرَجَ فَقُلْ لَهُ يَلْزَ٠ِنْ كُلِّ شَيْ‏ءٍ وَلا يَكْفِي ٠ِنْهُ شَيْ‏ءٌ اكْفِنِي ٠َّا أَنَا فِيهِ فَإِنِّي أَرْجُو أَنْ يُكْفَى ٠ِّ إِنْ شَاءَ الله تَعَالَى فَأَعْلَ٠َا أَتَى عَلَيْهِ إِلا قَلِيلٌ حَتَّى خَرَجَ ٠14.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad and Muhammad ibn Yahya from Ahmad ibn Muhammad all from Ali ibn Mahziyar who has said the following: “Muhammad ibn Hamza al-Ghanawi once wrote to me to ask abu Ja’far (a.s.) to instinct him with a supplication that helps make his wish for relief come true.

The Imam wrote back to me, ‘About the request of Muhammad ibn Hamza who wants to be instructed with a supplication that helps make his wish for relief come true, tell him to hold to this: “O the One who suffices for everything and nothing suffices for Him, suffice me in what concerns me in my condition,” 1 hope this will suffice him in his condition of sadness, by the will of Allah, the Most High.’ 1 then informed him of the supplication and shortly thereafter he was released from prison.’” ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/423))