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Dua 4

اَللّٰهُمَّ عَبْدُكَ وَابْنُ اَمَتِكَ احْتَاجَ اِلٰى رَحْمَتِكَ وَاَنْتَ غَنِيٌّ عَنْ عَذَابِهٖ اِنْ كَانَ مُحْسِنًا فَزِدْ فِيْٓ اِحْسَانِهٖ وَاِنْ كَانَ مُسِيْئًا فَتَجَاوَزْ عَنْهُ

O Allah! (This is) Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; he has become in need of Your mercy, and You have no need to punish him. If he was a doer of good, increase his good deeds, and if he was a wrongdoer, pass over his misdeeds.

The reciter says “fazid fee hasanaatihi” (his good deeds) instead of “fazid fee ihsaanihi” (his good conduct).

  1. Hasan, al-Mustadrak of al-Hakim (1/359), the wording is his, al-Ahad wa al-Mathani of Ibn Abi Asim, no. (444); al-Hakim graded it sahih, and adh-Dhahabi and al-Albani agreed with him; see: Ahkam al-Jana'iz of al-Albani (page 125).

    Yazid bin Rukanah (RA) is a Companion, as Imam al-Hakim stated clearly, so the objection of irsal is not correct. This hadith is also narrated from Abu Hurairah (RA) in almost the same words; see: [Sahih Ibn Hibban, ed. al-Arna'ut (no. 3073)], but there is a difference over whether it is marfu' or mawquf. It appears that it is sahih both ways: Abu Hurairah (RA) sometimes narrated it as marfu' and sometimes as mawquf.

More duas in this chapter

  1. 1O Allah! Forgive him, have mercy…
  2. 2O Allah! Forgive our living and…
  3. 3O Allah! Indeed, so-and-so son of…
  4. 4O Allah! (This is) Your servant…