Health and illness · When the moment comes
Hand on the pain, and say the pain du'a
- The practice
- Put your hand where it hurts, say Bismillah 3 times, then 7 times: A'udhu billahi wa qudratihi min sharri ma ajidu wa uhadhir.
- When
- When you feel pain in your body
- In daily life
- Use it for a headache at your desk, a stiff back after lifting the kids or a sore knee on the stairs. Keep the words in a phone note until you know them, and keep taking your medicine and seeing your doctor too.
The source
عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ أَبِي الْعَاصِ الثَّقَفِيِّ، أَنَّهُ شَكَا إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَجَعًا يَجِدُهُ فِي جَسَدِهِ مُنْذُ أَسْلَمَ . فَقَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " ضَعْ يَدَكَ عَلَى الَّذِي تَأَلَّمَ مِنْ جَسَدِكَ وَقُلْ بِاسْمِ اللَّهِ . ثَلاَثًا . وَقُلْ سَبْعَ مَرَّاتٍ أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ وَقُدْرَتِهِ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا أَجِدُ وَأُحَاذِرُ " .
“Uthman b. Abu al-'As Al-Thaqafi reported that he made a complaint of pain to Allah's Messenger ﷺ that he felt in his body at the time he had become Muslim. Thereupon Allah's Messenger ﷺ said:Place your hand at the place where you feel pain in your body and say Bismillah (in the name of Allah) three times and seven times A'udhu billahi wa qudratihi min sharri ma ajidu wa uhadhiru (I seek refuge with Allah and with His Power from the evil that I find and that I fear)”Arabic: ara-muslim · Translation: Abdul Hamid Siddiqui (eng-muslim), from the eng-muslim 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.