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The Prophet’s Three Prayers for His Ummah

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Hawzah News Agency- Sulayman ibn Ahmad ibn Ayyub al-Lakhmi narrated from Muhammad ibn Uthman ibn Abi Shaybah, from Minjab ibn al-Harith, from Abu Hudhayfah al-Tha’labi, from Ziyad ibn Ilaqah, from Jabir ibn Samurah al-Suwa’i, from Imam Ali (pbuh), that the Prophet (pbuh) said:

سَأَلْتُ رَبِّی تَبَارَکَ وَ تَعَالَی ثَلَاثَ خِصَالٍ فَأَعْطَانِی اثْنَتَیْنِ وَ مَنَعَنِی وَاحِدَهً قُلْتُ یَا رَبِّ لَا تُهْلِکْ أُمَّتِی جُوعاً قَالَ لَکَ هَذِهِ قُلْتُ یَا رَبِّ لَا تُسَلِّطْ عَلَیْهِمْ عَدُوّاً مِنْ غَیْرِهِمْ یَعْنِی مِنَ الْمُشْرِکِینَ فَیَجْتَاحُوهُمْ قَالَ لَکَ ذَلِکَ قُلْتُ یَا رَبِّ لَا تَجْعَلْ بَأْسَهُمْ بَیْنَهُمْ فَمَنَعَنِی هَذِهِ.

I asked my Lord, Blessed and Exalted, for three things; He granted me two and denied me one.

1. I said: ‘O Lord, do not destroy my nation through famine.’ He said: ‘You have this.’

2. I said: ‘O Lord, do not empower over them an external enemy—meaning from the polytheists—who would eradicate them.’ He said: ‘You have that.’

3. I said: ‘O Lord, do not make their hostility and strife be among themselves.’ But He denied me this.

Al-Khisal,Book 3,Hadith 9

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