Beseeching For Help (istighathah)

References

[1]. Qur’ān (an-Naml, the Ants) 27:62.

[2]. Qur’ān (an-Nahl, the Bee) 16:20-1.

[3]. Qur’ān (Fātir, the Originator) 35:13-4.

[4]. Qur’ān (al-Ahqāf, the Sand-dunes) 46:5.

[5]. Qur’ān (al-Hajj, Pilgrimage) 22:12.

[6]. Qur’ān (Yūnus, Jonah) 10:106-7.

[7]. Qur’ān (al-Hajj, Pilgrimage) 22:13.

[8]. Qur’ān (Āl ‘Imrān, the Family of ‘Imrān) 3:61.

[9]. Qur’ān (al-Qasas, the Narratives) 28:25.

[10]. Qur’ān (al-Baqarah, the Cow) 2:260.

[11]. Qur’ān (al-Isrā’, the Night journey) 17:71.

[12]. Baghawī narrated it inMa‘ālim-ut-tanzīl (3:126).

[13]. Qur’ān (al-Mā’idah, the Feast) 5:2.

[14]. Qur’ān (al-Ambiyā’, the Prophets) 21:112.

[15]. Qur’ān (Maryam, Mary) 19:19.

[16]. Qur’ān (Āl ‘Imrān, the Family of ‘Imrān) 3:49.

[17]. Qur’ān (al-Mā’idah, the Feast) 5:110.

[18]. Qur’ān (al-Mā’idah, the Feast) 5:110.

[19]. Shaykh ‘Abd-ul-Qādir Jīlānī,Qasīdah ghawthiyyah .

[20]. Qur’ān (an-Naml, the Ants) 27:38.

[21]. Abū Nu‘aym narrated it inDalā’il-un-nubuwwah (p.507); Khatīb Tabrīzī,Mishkāt-ul-masābīh , b. offadā’il (virtues) ch.8 (3:318#5954); Ibn ‘Asākir inTahdhīb tārīkh Dimashq al-kabīr generally known asTārīkh/Tahdhīb Ibn ‘Asākir ; Ibn Kathīr inal-Bidāyah wan-nihāyah (5:210-1) and declared its chain of authorities as excellent and fair (jayyid hasan ); ‘Asqalānī graded its chain of transmissionhasan (fair) inal-Isābah fī tamyīz-is-sahābah (2:3); ‘Alī al-Hindī,Kanz-ul-‘ummāl (12:571,572,573 #35788-91); ‘Ajlawnī,Kashf-ul-khifā’ wa muzīl-ul-ilbās (2:514#3172); and Albānī inSilsilat-ul-ahādīth-is-sahīhah (#1110).

[22]. Qur’ān (Āl ‘Imrān, the Family of ‘Imrān) 3:5.

[23]. Qur’ān (an-Naml, the Ants) 27:39.

[24]. Qur’ān (an-Naml, the Ants) 27:40.

[25]. Qurtubī,al-Jāmi‘ li-ahkām-il-Qur’ān (13:204).

[26]. Ibn Kathīr,Tafsīr-ul-Qur’ān al-‘azīm (3:364).

[27]. The following scholars also narrated that Āsif bin Barakhyā had the knowledge of the Book and he brought the throne of Queen Balqīs to Sulaymān*(Peace Be Upon Him)* :

bn Abī Hātim Rāzī,Tafsīr-ul-Qur’ān al-‘azīm (9:2885-6#16376-16381).

Ibn Jarīr Tabarī, Jāmi‘-ul-bayān fī tafsīr-il-Qur’ān (19:103).

Ibn-ul-Jawzī, Zād-ul-masīr fī ‘ilm-it-tafsīr (6:174).

Baydāwī,Tafsīr (3:280).

Rāzī, at-Tafsīr-ul-kabīr (24:197).

Tha‘ālabī, Jawāhir-ul-hisān fī tafsīr-il-Qur’ān (3:162).

Nasafī,al-Madārik (3:213).

Khāzin, Lubāb-ut-ta’wīl fī ma‘ānī at-tanzīl (3:385-6).

Abū Hayyān Andalusī,Tafsīr-ul-bahr-il-muhīt (7:75).

Mahallī,Tafsīr-ul-jalālayn (p.320).

Suyūtī, ad-Durr-ul-manthūr (5:109).

Sābūnī, Qabas min-nūr-il-Qur’ān al-karīm (9:176).

Ibrāhīm bin ‘Umar Biqā‘ī, Nazm-ud-Durar fī tanāsub-il-āyāt was-suwar (14:164-5).

Abū Sa‘ūd ‘Amādī, Irshād-ul-‘aql-is-salīm ilā mazāyā al- Qur’ān al-karīm (6:287).

Ismā‘īl Haqqī,Tafsīr rūh-ul-bayān (6:349).

Shawkānī,Fath-ul-qadīr (4:139).

Qadī Thanā’ullāh Pānīpatī,at-Tafsīr-ul-mazharī (7:117).

Zamakhsharī, al-Kashshāf ‘an haqā’iq ghawāmid-it-tanzīl (3:289).

Khatīb Shurbīnī,as-Sirāj-ul-munīr (3:60).

Ālūsī,Rūh-ul-ma‘ānī (19:203).

[28]. Qur’ān (an-Naml, the Ants) 27:40.

[29]. Qur’ān (Yāsīn, Yāsīn) 36:36.

[30]. Qur’ān (al-Baqarah, the Cow) 2:107.

[31]. Qur’ān (al-Ahzāb, the Confederates) 33:17.

[32]. Qur’ān (ash-Shūrā, Consultation) 42:28.

[33]. Qur’ān (al-Baqarah, the Cow) 2:120.

[34]. Qur’ān (an-Nisā’, Women) 4:45.

[35]. Qur’ān (al-Anfāl, Spoils of war) 8:10.

[36]. Qur’ān (al-Isrā’, the Night journey) 17:80.

[37]. Qur’ān (al-Furqān, the Criterion) 25:31.

[38]. Qur’ān (an-Nisā’, Women) 4:75.

[39]. Qur’ān (al-Mā’idah, the Feast) 5:55.

[40]. Qur’ān (at-Tahrīm, Prohibition) 66:4.

[41]. Qur’ān (at-Tawbah, Repentance) 9:71.

[42]. Tirmidhī transmitted it inal-Jāmi‘-us-Sahīh , b. ofsifat-ul-qiyāmah (the description of the Day of Judgement) ch.59 (4:667#2516) and graded ithasan (fair)sahīh (sound). Ahmad bin Hambal narrated it in hisMusnad (1:293, 303, 307); Tabarānī,al-Mu‘jam-ul-kabīr 12:184-5#12988-9); Bayhaqī,Shu‘ab-ul-īmān (1:217#195); Ibn-us-Sunnī,‘Amal-ul-yawm wal-laylah (p.136#419); and Mizzī inTuhfat-ul-ashrāf bi-ma‘rifat-il-atrāf (4:382#5415).

[43]. Qur’ān (an-Nahl, the Bee) 16:43.

[44]. Muslim narrated it in hisas-Sahīh , b. ofsalāt , (prayer) ch.43 (1:353#226/489); Abū Dāwūd,Sunan , b. ofsalāt , 2:35 (#1320); Nasā’ī,Sunan , b. ofiftitāh (opening) 2:227-8; Ahmad bin Hambal,Musnad (4:59); Bayhaqī,as-Sunan-ul-kubrā (2:486); Tabarānī,al-Mu‘jam-ul-kabīr (5:56#4570); Baghawī,Sharh-us-sunnah (3:149#655); Mundhirī,at-Targhīb wat-tarhīb (1:249); Khatīb Tabrīzī,Mishkāt-ul-masābīh , b. ofsalāt (prayer) ch.14 (1:271#896); Haythamī,Majma‘-uz-zawā’id (2:249); Mullā ‘Alī Qārī,Mirqāt-ul-mafātīh sharh Mishkāt-ul-masābīh (2:323); and ‘Alī al-Hindī inKanz-ul-‘ummāl (7:306#19006).

[45]. Qur’ān (al-Baqarah, the Cow) 2:145.

[46]. Qur’ān (al-Anfāl, Spoils of war) 8:60.

[47]. Qur’ān (al-Kahf, the Cave) 18:95.

[48]. Haythamī narrates it inMajma‘-uz-zawā’id (10:132) and says that its men are trustworthy.

[49]. Bukhārī narrated it in hisas-Sahīh , b. ofmazālim (oppressions) ch.4 (2:863#2310), b. ofikrāh (coercion) ch.7 (6:2550#6551); Muslim,as-Sahīh , b. ofbirr was-silah wal-ādāb (virtue, joining of the ties of relationship and good manners) ch.15 (4:1996#58/2580); Tirmidhī,al-Jāmi‘-us-sahīh , b. ofhudūd , ch.3 (4:35#1426); Abū Dāwūd,Sunan , b. ofadab (good manners) 4:273 (#4893); Ahmad bin Hambal,Musnad (2:91, 4:104); Bayhaqī,as-Sunan-ul-kubrā (6:94, 201; 8:330),Shu‘ab-ul-īmān (6:104#7614); Tabarānī,al-Mu‘jam-ul-kabīr (12:222#13137); Baghawī,Sharh-us-sunnah (13:98#3518); Mundhirī,at-Targhīb wat-tarhīb (3:389); ‘Asqalānī,Fath-ul-bārī (5:97; 12:323); and ‘Alī al-Hindī inKanz-ul-‘ummāl (6:444#16463).

[50]. Muslim narrated it in hisas-Sahīh , b. ofdhikr wad-du‘ā’ wat-tawbah wal-istighfār (remembering (Allāh), invocation, repentance and seeking forgiveness) ch.11 (4:2074#38/2699); Tirmidhī,al-Jāmi‘-us-sahīh , b. ofhudūd , ch.3 (4:34#1425), b. ofbirr was-silah (virtue and joining of the ties of relationship) ch.19 (4:326#1930), b. ofqirā’āt (recitations) ch.12 (5:195#2945); Abū Dāwūd,Sunan , b. ofadab (good manners) 4:287 (#4946); Ibn Mājah,Sunan, al-muqaddimah (preface) ch.17 (1:82#225); Ahmad bin Hambal,Musnad (2:252, 274, 500, 514); Ibn Abī Shaybah,al-Musannaf (9:85,86#6617-8); Ibn Hibbān,as-Sahīh (2:293#534); Baghawī,Sharh-us-Sunnah (1:273# 127); Abū Nu‘aym,Hilyat-ul-awliyā’ wa tabaqāt-ul-asfiyā’ (8:119); and Mundhirī inat-Targhīb wat-tarhīb (3:390).

[51]. Hākim narrated it inal-Mustadrak (4:270). Haythamī transmitted it with different words in hisMajma‘-uz-zawā’id (8:192) and said, “Tabarānī narrated it inal-Mu‘jam-ul-awsat (8:160#7322) and its chain of authorities is excellent (isnāduhū jayyid ).” Mundhirī also narrated it inat-Targhīb wat-tarhīb (3:391).

[52]. Haythamī narrated it inMajma‘-uz-zawā’id (8:192); and Mundhirī inat-Targhīb wat-tarhīb (3:390).

[53]. Tabarānī narrated it inal-Mu‘jam-ul-awsat (9:161#8346); Mundhirī,at-Targhīb wat-tarhīb (3:390); and Haythamī inMajma‘-uz-zawā’id (8:192).

[54]. Tabarānī narrated it inal-Mu‘jam-ul-kabīr (10:217#10518); Abū Ya‘lā,Musnad (9:177); Ibn-us-Sunnī,‘Amal-ul-yawm wal-laylah (p.162#502); Haythamī,Majma‘-uz-zawā’id (10:132); and ‘Asqalānī inal-Matālib-ul-‘āliyah (3:239#3375).

[55]. Related by Haythamī inMajma‘-uz-zawā’id (10:159).

[56]. Bukhārī narrated it in hisas-Sahīh , b. ofistisqā’ (to invoke Allāh for rain at the time of drought) ch.3 (1:342#963); Ibn Mājah,Sunan , b. ofiqāmat-us-salāt was-sunnah fīhā (establishing prayer and its sunnahs) ch.154 (1:405#1272); Ahmad bin Hambal,Musnad (2:93); Bayhaqī,as-Sunan-ul-kubrā (3:352),Dalā’il-un-nubuwwah (6:143); Ibn Hishām,as-Sīrat-un-nabawiyyah (1:281); Subkī,Shifā’-us-siqām fī ziyārat khayr-il-anām (p.127); Ibn Kathīr,al-Bidāyah wan-nihāyah (4:471); Mizzī,Tuhfat-ul-ashrāf bi-ma‘rifat-il-atrāf (5:359#6775); ‘Aynī,‘Umdat-ul-qārī (7:29); ‘Asqalānī,Fath-ul-bārī (2:494); Qastallānī,al-Mawāhib-ul-laduniyyah (4:271); and Zurqānī in hisCommentary (11:140).