Hadith 90

(The book) ‘Al Kafi’ – The number, from Sahl, from Ja’far Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Al Qadah, from his father Al Maymoun, ‘From Abu Abdullah-asws: ‘It was so that whenever Amir Al-Momineen-asws intended the fighting, said: ‘This is the supplication, ‘O Allah-azwj! You-azwj Notified a Way from Your-azwj Ways (and) Made Your-azwj Pleasure to be therein, and Authorised Your-azwj Guardians-asws upon it, and Made it the noblest of Your-azwj Ways with Rewards in Your-azwj Presence, and most honourable of it as an ending, and the most Beloved it to You-azwj as a pathway. Then You-azwj Bought in it from the Momineen their own selves and their wealth that for them would be the Paradise, fighting in the Way of Allah, so they are killing and being killed, [9: 111], based on a promise upon You-azwj which is true. Therefore, Make me to be from the ones whom You-azwj have Bought their own selves, then they fulfil the pledge which You-azwj Pledged upon it, not being from the breaker and contradictors of an oath, nor Replace me with a replacement. But, (Make me) as a responder to Your-azwj Love, and to be closer to You-azwj by it. Therefore, Make it a conclusion of my deeds, and Make therein an annihilation of my lifetime, and Grace me in it and by it, a martyrdom for You-azwj, and Obligate to me by it, the Pleasure from you, and Delete from me, the errors by it. And Make me to be among the living Sustained ones (martyred) by the hands of the enemies and the disobedient ones, beneath the flag of the Truth and a flag of the Guidance, going to their (Believers) for their help, forward without turning backwards, nor encountering any doubts. O Allah-azwj! And I seek Refuge with You-azwj during that, from the cowardice during the turning conditions, and from the weakness during encounters with the champions (of the enemies), and from the sins which frustrate the deeds so I can refrain from doubts, or die without conviction in my quest in ruination, and my deeds would be without Acceptance’’. [155]