Hadith 105

(The book) ‘Mahj Al Dawaat’ – Sa’ad Bin Muhammad Al Farra, from Al Husayn Bin Muhammad Bin Al Jawad, at the shrine of our master Ja’far Bin Muhammad-asws at the central Masjid on the day of Friday the twenty-second of Jumadi Al Akhira. He said, ‘It is narrated to me by Saeed Bin Abu Al Fatah Bin Al Hassan Al Qummi, lodging at Wasit. He said, ‘A new illness occurred with me tiring the doctors. So, my father took me to the hospital. The doctors and the consultants gathered and contemplated. They said, ‘This is an illness no can remove except Allah-azwj the Exalted! ’
I returned and I was of broken heart and constricted chest. I took a book from the books of my father. I found written upon its back, ‘From Al-Sadiq-asws’, raising it from his-asws forefathers‑asws, from the Prophet-saww. He-saww said: ‘One who has an illness with him, so he says forty times as follow-up of Al-Fajr Salat, ‘In the Name of Allah the Beneficent, the Merciful [1: 1] ‘Allah is Sufficient for us and the most excellent Protector’ [3: 173] Blessed is Allah, the best of the Creators [23: 14], and there is neither might nor strength except with Allah-azwj the Exalted, the Magnificent! ’, and wipes his hand upon it, Allah-azwj the Exalted will Remove it from him and Heal him’. I waited patiently for the time up to the dawn. When the dawn emerged, I prayed the obligatory Salat and sat in my place and repeated it forty times and wiped my hand upon the illness. Allah-azwj the Exalted Removed it. I sat in my place and I was fearful that it might return. I did not cease to be like that for three days, and I informed my father with that. He thanked Allah-azwj the Exalted and narrated that to one of the doctors, and he was a Zimmi (Christian of Jew under protection of the Muslim government). He entered to see me. He looked at the illness, and it had declined. I narrated the narration to him. He said, ‘I testify that there is no god except Allah-azwj, and that Muhammad-saww is Rasool-saww of Allah-azwj! ’, and his Islam was good’’. [188]