إِذَا أَرَدْتَ أَنْ تَشْتَرِيَ شَيْئاً فَقُلْ يَا حَيُّ يَا قَيُّومُ يَا دَائِمُ يَا رَءُوفُ يَا رَحِيمُ أَسْأَلُكَ بِعِزَّتِكَ وَ قُدْرَتِكَ وَ مَا أَحَاطَ بِهِ عِلْمُكَ أَنْ تَقْسِمَ لِي مِنَ التِّجَارَةِ الْيَوْمَ أَعْظَمَهَا رِزْقاً وَ أَوْسَعَهَا فَضْلًا وَ خَيْرَهَا عَاقِبَةً فَإِنَّهُ لَا خَيْرَ فِيمَا لَا عَاقِبَةَ لَهُ قَالَ وَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) إِذَا اشْتَرَيْتَ دَابَّةً أَوْ رَأْساً فَقُلِ اللَّهُمَّ اقْدِرْ لِي أَطْوَلَهَا حَيَاةً وَ أَكْثَرَهَا مَنْفَعَةً وَ خَيْرَهَا عَاقِبَةً .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, and Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Muawiya Bin Ammar, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said, ‘Whenever you intend to buy something, so say, ‘O Living, O Guardian, Oh Eternal, O Kind, O Merciful! I ask You<sup>azwj</sup> by Your<sup>azwj</sup> Honour, and Your<sup>azwj</sup> Power and what Your<sup>azwj</sup> Knowledge eencompasses, that You<sup>azwj</sup> Apportion for me from the business today with a great sustenance, and extensive Grace, and its goodness being the end result, so there is no goodness in what there is no end result for it’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Whenever you buy an animal, or a head (slave), so say, ‘O Allah<sup>azwj</sup>! Enable for me the longevity of its life, and the abundance of its benefit, and the goodness of its end result’.
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