Family · When the moment comes
Make du'a while hugging your child
- The practice
- While embracing a child, say 'Allahumma irhamhuma/irhamhu' (O Allah, have mercy on them)
- When
- embracing your child
- In daily life
- Tie it to the hug you already give: at the school gate or at bedtime, softly say 'Allahumma irhamhu' as you hold them. Keep the words as a note on your phone until they come naturally.
The source
كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَأْخُذُنِي فَيُقْعِدُنِي عَلَى فَخِذِهِ، وَيُقْعِدُ الْحَسَنَ عَلَى فَخِذِهِ الأُخْرَى، ثُمَّ يَضُمُّهُمَا ثُمَّ يَقُولُ " اللَّهُمَّ ارْحَمْهُمَا فَإِنِّي أَرْحَمُهُمَا
“Allah's Messenger ﷺ used to put me on (one of) his thighs and put Al-Hasan bin `Ali on his other thigh, and then embrace us and say, "O Allah! Please be Merciful to them, as I am merciful to them”Narrated by Usama bin ZaidSahih al-Bukhari 6003
The full hadith, with its chain and grading →Arabic: ara-bukhari · Translation: Muhsin Khan (eng-bukhari), from the eng-bukhari edition of hadith-api (public domain), sunnah.com numbering.
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Get early accessSources: Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, and narrations of Jami at-Tirmidhi graded sahih or hasan sahih by al-Albani.