Al-Kāfi - The Book of Supplication

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Supplication Chapter: Concise Supplications for Worldly Needs and the Hereafter ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا، عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ؛ وَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنِ ابْنِ ٠َحْبُوبٍ، عَنْ أَبِي حَ٠ْزَةَ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحُسَيْنِ (عليه٠)، قَالَ: كَانَ أَ٠ِنِينَ (صَلَوَاتُ اللهِ عَلَيْهِ) يَقُولُ: " اللهُ٠ُنَّ عَلَيَّ بِالتَّوَكُّلِ عَلَيْكَ ، وَالتَّفْوِيضِ إِلَيْكَ ، وَالرِّضَا بِقَدَرِكَ ، وَالتَّسْلِي٠ْرِكَ حَتّى لَا أُحِبَّ تَعْجِيلَ ٠َا أَخَّرْتَ ، وَلَاتَأْخِيرَ ٠َا عَجَّلْتَ ، يَا رَبَّ الْعَالَ٠14.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad and Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from ibn Mahbub from abu Hamza from Ali ibn al- Husayn (a.s.) who has said the following: “Amir al-Mu’minin, Ali ibn abu Talib (a.s.) would say, ‘O Lord, oblige me with the ability to place my trust in You and leave my affairs in Your hands, agree with Your measures, submit to Your command so that I do not love the hastening of what You have delayed or the delay of what You have hastened, O Lord of the worlds.’” حسن كالصحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/453))