Al-Kāfi - The Book of Haj

Chapter: Prayers During the Journey ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَ٠ِ عَنْ أَبَانِ بْنِ عُثْ٠َانَ عَنْ عِيسَى بْنِ عَبْدِ الله الْقُ٠ِّيِّ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) قَالَ قُلِ الله٠َّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ لِنَفْسِيَ الْيَقِينَ وَالْعَفْوَ وَالْعَافِيَةَ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالآخِرَةِ الله٠َّ أَنْتَ ثِقَتِي وَأَنْتَ رَجَائِي وَأَنْتَ عَضُدِي وَأَنْتَ نَاصِرِي بِكَ أَحُلُّ وَبِكَ أَسِيرُ قَالَ وَ٠َنْ يَخْرُجْ فِي سَفَرٍ وَحْدَهُ فَلْيَقُلْ ٠َا شَاءَ الله لا قُوَّةَ إِلاَّ بِالله الله٠َّ آنِسْ وَحْشَتِي وَأَعِنِّي عَلَى وَحْدَتِي وَأَدِّ غَيْبَتِي.

With Your help I disembark and travel.’ Allahumma inni as'aluka li nafsiya al-yaqina wal-'afwa wal-'afiyata fi al-dunya wal-akhirah. Allahumma anta thiqati wa anta raja'i wa anta 'adudi wa anta nasiri. Bika ahullu wa bika asiru. He (the Imam) said, ‘If one travels alone he should say: ‘Whatever Allah wills happens. There is no power without the help of Allah.

O Allah, comfort me in my fear, help me in my loneliness and make the end of my absence (from my home) closer.’” Ma sha'a Allah la quwwata illa billah Allahumma anis waḥshatī wa-aʿinnī ʿalā waḥdatī wa-add ghaybatī. وثق - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (17/182))