7 - Chapter: Seeking Refuge from Worry

5449 - Ali ibn al-Mundhir informed us, from Ibn Fudayl, who said: Muhammad ibn Ishaq narrated to us, from al-Minhāl ibn ʿAmr, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ had supplications that he never abandoned. He would say: "O Allah, I seek refuge in You from worry and grief, from incapacity and laziness, from miserliness and cowardice, and from being overpowered by men."(1)

5450 - Ishaq ibn Ibrahim informed us, saying: Jarir informed us, from Muhammad ibn Ishaq, from ʿAmr ibn Abi ʿAmr
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= And it was also recorded by Ibn Hibbān (1023) via the chain of Shaybān al-Naḥwī, from Qatādah, from him, with the wording: "O Allah, I seek refuge in You from incapacity and laziness, from miserliness and senility, from hardness of heart and heedlessness, from humiliation and poverty, and I seek refuge in You from poverty and disbelief, from polytheism and hypocrisy, from reputation-seeking and ostentation, and I seek refuge in You from deafness and muteness, from madness and leprosy, from vitiligo and evil diseases."

And it was recorded by al-Bukhārī (6371) via the chain of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Ṣuhayb, from Anas, from him, with the wording: "O Allah, I seek refuge in You from laziness, and I seek refuge in You from cowardice, and I seek refuge in You from senility, and I seek refuge in You from miserliness."

And it was recorded by al-Bukhārī (4707) and Muslim (2706): (52) via the chain of Shuʿayb ibn al-Ḥabḥāb, from Anas, from him, with the wording: "O Allah, I seek refuge in You from miserliness and laziness, from the worst of old age, from the punishment of the grave, and from the trials of life and death."

And it will follow as number (5459) via ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī, from Muʿādh ibn Hishām, from him, with the addition: "and cowardice."

And it will follow — with this addition — as number (5452) via the chain of Sulaymān al-Taymī, from Anas, from him.

And it will follow — with similar wordings — as number (5449) via the chain of al-Minhāl ibn ʿAmr, and as numbers (5450), (5453), (5476), and (5503) via the chain of ʿAmr ibn Abi ʿAmr, and as numbers (5451), (5457), and (5495) via the chain of Ḥumayd ibn Abi Ḥumayd, all three from Anas, from him.

(1) A sound ḥadīth, and this chain contains an error made by Ibn Fudayl — namely Muhammad — as the compiler stated. The preserved version is as in the following narration: from Muhammad ibn Isḥāq, from ʿAmr ibn Abi ʿAmr, the freed slave of al-Muṭṭalib, from Anas. It is in "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" as number (7835).