Introduction: The Source Of The Du‘a’
Many of our great scholars have narrated this beautiful supplication in their prayer manuals. The following are worthy of mention:
(a) Sayyid Razi al-Din Ibn Tawus al-Hasani (d. 664 AH) in his monumental prayer manual Iqbal al-A‘mal narrates this supplication with his chain of narration from Shaykh Harun Ibn Musa al-Tala‘ukbara (d. 385 AH), a great and trustworthy narrator of traditions, from Imam Abu ‘Abdillah as-Sadiq (‘a) and Imam Abu Ibrahim al-Kadhim (‘a)1.
(b) Shaykh Ibrahim Ibn ‘Ali Ibn al-Hasan al-Kaf‘ami (d. 905 AH) in his well-known prayer manual al-Misbah narrates this supplication from the book al-Firdaws2.
(c) ‘Allamah Al-Majlisi (d. 1110 AH) likewise narrates this du‘a’ in his prayer manual Zad al-Ma‘ad with a chain of narration leading to Imam as-Sadiq (‘a) and Imam al-Kadhim (‘a)3.
Besides the aforesaid references, if one ponders upon this supplication very carefully, one will realise that it is a Qur’anic supplication. The light of the Qur’an glows throughout the verses.
