Supplications of Rasulullah Sallallahu alayhi wasallam (I of II)

• Shakal ibn Humayd radhiyallahu anhu said, “Messenger of Allah, teach me a supplication that will benefit me.” He said, “Say: O Allah, protect me from the evil of my sight and hearing, my tongue, my heart, and the evil of my desire.”

• ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Abbas radhiyallahu anhu reported that Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam used to say, “O Allah, help me and do not help against me. Support me and do not support anyone against me. Make guidance easy for me.”

• Ibn ‘Abbas radhiyallahu anhu said, “I heard Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam making supplication with these words: “O Allah, help me and do not help anyone against me. Devise for me and do not devise against me. Make guidance easy for me. Avert from me the one who attacks me. O Lord, make me grateful to You, remember You, fearful of You, obedient to You and humble to You, supplicating, penitent. Accept my repentance. Wash away my wrong actions and answer my supplication. Establish my proof and guide my heart. Make my tongue correct and make resentment flow out of my heart.”

• Abu Hurayrah radhiyallahu anhu reported that Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam said, “The firmest supplication is to say: O Allah, you are my Lord and I am Your slave. I have wronged myself and I admit my wrong action. Only You forgive wrong actions, Lord, forgive me.”

• Abu Hurayrah radhiyallahu anhu reported, “Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam used to make this supplication: O Allah, make my Ddeen correct it is the support of my affairs. Make my Deen correct it contains my livelihood. Make death a mercy for me from every evil. ”

• ‘Umar radhiyallahu anhu said, “Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam used to seek refuge from five things: laziness, miserliness, bad pride, the trial of what is in the breast, and the punishment of the grave.”

• Anas ibn Malik radhiyallahu anhu said, “Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam used to say, “O Allah, I seek refuge with You from incapacity, laziness, cowardice and old age. I seek refuge with You from the trials of life and death. I seek refuge with You from the punishment of the grave.”

• Anas radhiyallahu anhu said, “I heard Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam say, “O Allah, I seek refuge with You from concern, sorrow, incapacity, laziness, cowardice, miserliness, being deeply in debt and being overpowered by men.”

• Abu Hurayrah radhiyallahu anhu said, “One of the supplications of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam was, “O Allah! Forgive me for my past and future wrong actions, what I conceal and what I divulge, and what You know of me. You are the One who puts ahead and delays. There is no god but You.”

• ‘Abdullah radhiyallahu anhu said, “Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam used to make this supplication, “O Allah, I ask You for guidance, virtuousness and wealth.”

• Abu Hurayrah radhiyallahu anhu reported that Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam used to say, “O Allah, I seek refuge with You from poverty, need and abasement. I seek refuge with You from being unjust or wronged.”

• Abu Umamah radhiyallahu anhu said, “We were with Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam and he made many supplications which we did not remember. We said, “You make supplications which we do not remember.” He said, “I will inform you of something which will combine all of them for you: O Allah, We ask You for what Your Prophet Muhammad asked You, and we seek refuge with You from what Your Prophet Muhammad sought refuge. O Allah, You are the One to whom one turns for help and You are the One who brings it about. There is no power nor strength except by Allah,” or words to that effect.”

• ‘Amr ibn Shu‘ayb radhiyallahu anhu reported that his grandfather said, “I heard Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam say, “O Allah, I seek refuge with You from the trial of the Dajjal and I seek refuge with You from the trial of the Fire.”

• Ibn ‘Abbas radhiyallahu anhu used to say, “O Allah, make me content with the provision You have given me and bless me in it and appoint good for me in every thing which I do not have.”

• Anas radhiyallahu anhu said, “The most frequent supplication of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam was, “O Allah, give us good in this world and good in the Next World and protect us from the punishment of the Fire.”

• Anas radhiyallahu anhu said, “Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam most frequently said, “O Allah, O Over-turner of hearts, make my heart firm in Your Deen.”

• ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Umar radhiyallahu anhu said, “One of the supplications of the Messenger of Allah was, “O Allah, I seek refuge with You from the disappearance of Your blessing and from the loss of good health and Your sudden vengeance and all of Your anger.”

(The above mentioned narrations are quoted from Adabul Mufrad – Bukhari)