Beseeching For Help (istighathah)

References

[1]. Qur’ān (ash-Shu‘arā’, the Poets) 26:83.

[2]. Qādī Thanā’ullāh Pānīpatī,at-Tafsīr-ul-mazharī (7:72).

[3]. Rāzī, at-Tafsīr-ul-kabīr (24:148).

[4]. Qur’ān (al-Baqarah, the Cow) 2:130.

[5]. Qur’ān (at-Tawbah, Repentance) 9:119.

[6]. Qur’ān (Luqmān, Luqmān) 31:15.

[7]. Qur’ān (Yūsuf, Joseph) 12:101.

[8]. Ahmad bin Hambal transmitted it in his Musnad (5:191); Hākim, al-Mustadrak (1:516); Tabarānī, al-Mu‘jam-ul-kabīr (5:119,157 #4803,4932); and Haythamī in Majma‘-uz-zawā’id (10:113).

[9]. Abū Dāwūd narrated it in his Sunan, b. of zakāt (obligatory charity) 2:122 (#1646); Nasā’ī, Sunan, b. of zakāt (5:95); Ahmad bin Hambal, Musnad (4:334); Bukhārī, at-Tārīkh-ul-kabīr [7:138 (4/1/138)]; Bayhaqī, as-Sunan-ul-kubrā (4:197); Ibn ‘Abd-ul-Barr, at-Tamhīd (4:107); and ‘Alī al-Hindī in Kanz-ul-‘ummāl (6:502#16721).

[10]. Muhammad Khalīl Harās, Sharh al-‘Aqīdat-ul-wāsitiyyah (p.153).

[11]. Qur’ān (al-Baqarah, the Cow) 2:28.

[12]. Qur’ān (al-Baqarah, the Cow) 2:154.

[13]. Qur’ān (Āl ‘Imrān, the Family of ‘Imrān) 3:169.

[14]. Bukhārī narrated it in his as-Sahīh, b. of maghāzī (military expeditions led by the Prophet) ch.7 (4:1461#3757); Muslim, as-Sahīh, b. of jannah wa sifat na‘īmihā wa ahlihā (Paradise, attributes of its and natives) ch.17 (4:2203#77/2874); Ahmad bin Hambal, Musnad (3:145; 4:29); Tabarānī, al-Mu‘jam-ul-kabīr (5:96#4701); Baghawī, Sharh-us-sunnah (13:384#3779); Ibn Kathīr, al-Bidāyah wan-nihāyah (1:210); ‘Asqalānī, Fath-ul-bārī (7:301); and Haythamī in Majma‘-uz-zawā’id (6:90-1).

[15]. Ibn Mājah narrated this sahīh (sound) hadīth in his Sunan, b. of janā’iz (funerals) ch.65 (1:524#1636-7), b. of iqāmat-us-salāt was-sunnah fīhā (establishing prayer and its sunnahs) ch.79 (1:345#1085); Abū Dāwūd, Sunan, b. of salāt (prayer) 1:275 (#1047); Nasā’ī, Sunan, b. of jumu‘ah (Friday prayer) 3:92; Ahmad bin Hambal, Musnad (4:8); Ibn Hibbān, as-Sahīh (3:191#910); Dārimī, Sunan (1:307#1580); Ibn Khuzaymah, as-Sahīh (3:118#1733); Ibn Abī Shaybah, al-Musannaf (2:516); Hākim, al-Mustadrak (1:278); Tabarānī, al-Mu‘jam-ul-kabīr (1:217#589); and Bayhaqī in as-Sunan-ul-kubrā (3:249).

[16]. Haythamī transmitted it in Majma‘-uz-zawā’id (9:24) and said that that tradition had been reported by Bazzār (in his Musnad) and its sub-narrators are all ofsahīh (sound)hadīth . ‘Irāqī has confirmed the soundness of its chain of transmission in his bookTarh-ut-tathrīb fī sharh-it-taqrīb (3:297). Ibn Sa‘d has recorded it inat-Tabaqāt-ul-kubrā (2:194). Qādī ‘Iyād has inscribed this tradition inash-Shifā (1:19); and Suyūtī, recording it inal-Khasā’is-ul-kubrā (2:281) andManāhil-us-sifā fī takhrīj ahādīth ash-Shifā (p.3), has commented that Ibn Abī Usāmah in hisMusnad has reproduced it through Bakr bin ‘Abdullāh al-Muzanī and Bazzār in hisMusnad who have relied on its narration by ‘Abdullāh bin Mas‘ūd with a sound chain of transmission. It has been endorsed by Khafājī and Mullā ‘Alī Qārī in their commentaries onash-Shifā, i.e.Nasīm-ur-riyād (1:102) andSharh ash-Shifā (1:36) respectively.Hadīth -scholar Ibn-ul-Jawzī has reproduced it inal-Wafā bi-ahwāl-il-mustafā (2:809-10) from Bakr bin ‘Abdullāh and Anas bin Mālik. Subkī has copied this tradition inShifā’-us-siqām fī ziyārat khayr-il-anām (p.34) from Bakr bin ‘Abdullāh al-Muzanī, and Ibn ‘Abd-ul-Hādī inas-Sārim-ul-munkī (p.266-7) has authenticated its veracity. Bazzār’s tradition has also been recorded by Ibn Kathīr inal-Bidāyah wan-nihāyah (4:257). ‘Asqalānī narrated it through Bakr bin ‘Abdullāh al-Muzanī inal-Matālib-ul-‘āliyah (4:22-3#3853). ‘Alī al-Hindī copied Ibn Sa‘d’s tradition inKanz-ul-‘ummāl (11:407#31903) and from Hārith (#31904). Nabhānī related it inHujjatullāh ‘alal-‘ālamīn fī mu‘jazāt sayyid-il-mursalīn (p.713).

[17]. Qur’ān (al-Isrā’, the Night journey) 17:85.

[18]. Ibn-ul-Qayyim, Kitāb-ur-rūh (p.13).

[19]. Ibn-ul-Qayyim, Kitāb-ur-rūh (p.13).

[20]. Muslim transmitted it in his as-Sahīh, b. of birr was-silah wal-ādāb (virtue, joining of the ties of relationship and good manners) ch.48 (4:2030#157/2637); Bakhārī narrated it at three places in his as-Sahīh: b. of bad’-ul-khalq (beginning of creation) ch.6 (3:1175#3037), b. of adab (good manners) ch.41 (5:2246#5693), and b. of tawhīd (Islamic monotheism) ch.33 (6:2721#7047); Ahmad bin Hambal in Musnad (2:413); Mālik bin Anas in al-Muwattā, b. of sha‘ar (hair) ch.5 (2:953#15); and Khatīb Tabrīzī in Mishkāt-ul-masābīh, b. of ādāb (good manners) ch.16 (3:74#5005).

[21]. Tirmidhī narrated it in al-Jāmi‘-us-sahīh, b. of zuhd (piety) ch.50 (4:595#2385), and graded it sahīh (sound); Ahmad bin Hambal in Musnad (3:104, 168, 178, 200); Ibn Hibbān, as-Sahīh (1:182, 308-9#8,105; 16:345#7348); Baghawī, Sharh-us-sunnah (13:60-4#3475-9). Bukhārī also narrated it with different words in his as-Sahīh, b. of fadā’il-us-sahābah (merits of the Companions) ch.6 (3:1349#3485), b. of adab (good manners) ch.95, 96 (5:2282-3#5815-9), and b. of ahkām (judgements) ch.10 (6:2615#6734); Muslim in as-Sahīh, b. of birr was-silah wal-ādāb (virtue, joining of the ties of relationship and good manners) ch.50 (4:2032-3# 161-4/2639); Ahmad bin Hambal in Musnad (3:110,165, 167,172,173,207,208,255,276); ‘Abd-ur-Razzāq, al-Musannaf (11:199#20317); Humaydī, Musnad (2:502# 1190); Ibn Abī Shaybah, al-Musannaf (15:169#19407); Abū Ya‘lā, Musnad (5:144#2758; 6: 36,256#3280-1, 3557); Ibn Hibbān, as-Sahīh (2:323-4#563-5); Tabarānī, al-Mu‘jam-ul-kabīr (3:183#3061); Bayhaqī, Shu‘ab-ul-īmān (1:380,387 #462,498; 2:130-1#1379); and Khatīb Tabrīzī in Mishkāt-ul-masābīh, b. of adab (good manners) ch.16 (3:75#5009).

[22]. This sahīh (sound) hadīth narrated by Mālik bin Anas in al-Muwattā, b. of sha‘ar (hair) ch.5 (2:954#16), and Ibn ‘Abd-ul-Barr said its chain is good. Ahmad bin Hambal also transmitted it in his Musnad (5:233); Hākim in al-Mustadrak (4:169), who graded it sahīh, and also confirmed by Dhahabī; Baghawī in Sharh-us-sunnah, (13:49-50#3463); Khatīb Tabrīzī in Mishkāt-ul-masābīh, b. of ādāb (good manners) ch.16 (3:75#5011).

[23]. Abū Dāwūd, Sunan, b. of ijārah (wages) 3:288 (#3527); Bayhaqī, Shu‘ab-ul-īmān, (6:486#8998,8999); Khatīb Tabrīzī, Mishkāt-ul-masābīh, b. of adab (good manners) ch.16 (3:75-6#5012).

[24]. Bayhaqī, Shu‘ab-ul-īmān, (6:492#9022); Khatīb Tabrīzī, Mishkāt-ul-masābīh, b. of ādāb (good manners) ch.16 (3:77#5024); ‘Alī al-Hindī, Kanz-ul-‘ummāl (9:4#24646).