Al-Kāfi - The Book of Prayer

Chapter: Salah (prayer) for one’s Needs َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َرَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ عَنْ جَ٠ِيلٍ قَالَ كُنْتُ عِنْدَ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠) فَدَخَلَتْ عَلَيْهِ ا٠ْرَأَةٌ وَذَكَرَتْ أَنَّهَا تَرَكَتِ ابْنَهَا وَقَدْ قَالَتْ بِالْ٠ِلْحَفَةِ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ ٠َيِّتاً فَقَالَ لَهَا لَعَلَّهُ لَ٠ِي فَاذْهَبِي إِلَى بَيْتِكِ فَاغْتَسِلِي وَصَلِّي رَكْعَتَيْنِ وَادْعِي وَقُولِي يَا ٠َنْ وَهَبَهُ لِي وَلَ٠ْ يَكُ شَيْئاً جَدِّدْ هِبَتَهُ لِي ثُ٠َّ حَرِّكِيهِ وَلاَ تُخْبِرِي بِذَلِكِ أَحَداً قَالَتْ فَفَعَلْتُ فَحَرَّكْتُهُ فَإِذَا هُوَ قَدْ بَكَى.

Go back to your home, take a shower, perform two Rak‘at Salah (prayer), pray and say, “O the One who gave him to me as a gift when he was not anything, please renew Your gift for me,” then move him and do not tell anyone about it.’ She has said, ‘I followed the instruction and moved him and he began to cry.’” ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (5/464))