شَكَا رَجُلٌ إِلَى أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) الْفَاقَةَ وَ الْحُرْفَةَ فِي التِّجَارَةِ بَعْدَ يَسَارٍ قَدْ كَانَ فِيهِ مَا يَتَوَجَّهُ فِي حَاجَةٍ إِلَّا ضَاقَتْ عَلَيْهِ الْمَعِيشَةُ فَأَمَرَهُ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) أَنْ يَأْتِيَ مَقَامَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) بَيْنَ الْقَبْرِ وَ الْمِنْبَرِ فَيُصَلِّيَ رَكْعَتَيْنِ وَ يَقُولَ مِائَةَ مَرَّةٍ اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَسْأَلُكَ بِقُوَّتِكَ وَ قُدْرَتِكَ وَ بِعِزَّتِكَ وَ مَا أَحَاطَ بِهِ عِلْمُكَ أَنْ تُيَسِّرَ لِي مِنَ التِّجَارَةِ أَوْسَعَهَا رِزْقاً وَ أَعَمَّهَا فَضْلًا وَ خَيْرَهَا عَاقِبَةً قَالَ الرَّجُلُ فَفَعَلْتُ مَا أَمَرَنِي بِهِ فَمَا تَوَجَّهْتُ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فِي وَجْهٍ إِلَّا رَزَقَنِيَ اللَّهُ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Ismail, from Al-Fazl Bin Sh<span class="iTxt">Azaan </span>, from Safwan Bin Yahya, from Ibn Muskan, from Muhammad Bin Ali Al-Halby who said, ‘A man complained to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> of the poverty and the difficulties in the trading after affluence, and it had been so that he had not diverted anywhere for his needs except that the livelihood was constrained upon him. So Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> ordered him that he should go to the place of Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup>, between the grave and the Pulpit, so he should pray two Rak’at of <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> and he should be saying one hundred times, ‘O Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! I ask You<sup>azwj</sup> by Your<sup>azwj</sup> Power and by Your<sup>azwj</sup> Honour, and whatever Your<sup>azwj</sup> Knowledge encompasses, that You<sup>saww</sup> should Facilitate to me from the trading Expanding the livelihood, and Grace, and of its best consequence’. The man said, ‘So I did what I had been ordered with, so I did not divert myself after that in a direction except that Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Graced me’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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