Health and illness · When the moment comes
Ask for their healing seven times when you visit the sick
- The practice
- When you visit someone who is ill, say seven times: 'As'alullahal-'Azim, Rabbal-'Arshil-'Azim, an yashfiyak.'
- When
- When you visit someone who is ill
- In daily life
- Say it at a hospital bedside, on the sofa of a friend laid up with flu, or on a call to a relative far away. Count the seven on your fingers so you don't lose track, and let them hear you asking for their healing.
The source
عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَنَّهُ قَالَ " مَا مِنْ عَبْدٍ مُسْلِمٍ يَعُودُ مَرِيضًا لَمْ يَحْضُرْ أَجَلُهُ فَيَقُولُ سَبْعَ مَرَّاتٍ أَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ الْعَظِيمَ رَبَّ الْعَرْشِ الْعَظِيمِ أَنْ يَشْفِيَكَ إِلاَّ عُوفِيَ " .
“Ibn 'Abbas narrated that the Prophet (S.A.W) said:"There is no Muslim worshiper who visits one who is ill - other than at the time of death - and he says seven times: As'alullah Al-'Azeem Rabbal 'Arshil 'Azeem an yashfik ('I ask Allah the Magnificent, Lord of the Magnificent Throne to cure you') except when he will be cured”Narrated by Ibn AbbasJami at-Tirmidhi 2083 (sahih, al-Albani)
The full hadith, with its chain and grading →Arabic: ara-tirmidhi · Translation: translator not named in the edition (eng-tirmidhi), from the eng-tirmidhi 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.