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Musannaf Ibn Abi Shayba 33:1382

Book of Asceticism (Zuhd)

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Hadith 33:1382

Waki’ narrated to us, he said: Malik ibn Mighwal narrated to us, from ‘Abdullah ibn Buraydah, from his father, that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) heard a man saying: "O Allah, I ask You by [the fact] that You are Allah, the One, the Eternal Refuge, who neither begets nor is born, and to whom there is no equivalent." He said: "You have asked Allah by His Greatest Name, which, if He is called upon by it, He answers, and if He is asked by it, He gives."

حدثنا وكيع قال حدثنا مالك بن مغول عن عبد الله بن بريدة عن أبيه أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم سمع رجلا يقول اللهم إني أسألك بأنك أنت الله الأحد الصمد الذي لم يلد ولم يولد ولم يكن له كفوا أحد فقال لقد سألت الله بإسمه الأعظم الذي إذا دعي به أجاب وإذا سئل به أعطى