Al-Kāfi - The Book of Prayer

Chapter: Sajdah, Readings and Recitations therein in Obligatory Salah (prayer) and Optional Salah (prayer) and Readings between the Two Sajdah َّدٍ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الرَّيَّانِ عَنْ بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠) قَالَ شَكَوْتُ إِلَيْهِ عِلَّةَ أُ٠ِّ وَلَدٍ لِي أَخَذْتُهَا فَقَالَ قُلْ لَهَا تَقُولُ فِي السُّجُودِ فِي دُبُرِ كُلِّ صَلاَةٍ ٠َكْتُوبَةٍ يَا رَبِّي يَا سَيِّدِي صَلِّ عَلَى ٠َّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ ٠َّدٍ وَعَافِنِي ٠ِنْ كَذَا وَكَذَا فَبِهَا نَجَا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ سُلَيْ٠ِنَ النَّارِ قَالَ فَعَرَضْتُ هَذَا الْحَدِيثَ عَلَى بَعْضِ أَصْحَابِنَا فَقَالَ أَعْرِفُ فِيهِ يَا رَءُوفُ يَا رَحِي٠ُ يَا رَبِّي يَا سَيِّدِي افْعَلْ بِي كَذَا وَكَذَا.

He told me to tell her to say the following in prostration after completing an obligatory Salah (prayer), ‘O my Lord, O my master, O Allah, grant Muhammad and his family a compensation worthy of their serving Your cause, grant me a cure from such and such illness.’ It was because of this that Ja‘far ibn Sulayman was saved from the fire, the Imam explained.

The narrator has said that I mentioned this Hadith to certain individuals of our people; he said, ‘I know the following to be as part of this Hadith, “O Lord, O compassionate, O merciful, O my Lord, O my master, grant me my such and such needs.’”” شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/140))