Health & the body

Someone you love is ill

Sitting beside the sick

21 verified supplications · 11 written out in full

أَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ الْعَظِيمَ رَبَّ الْعَرْشِ الْعَظِيمِ أَنْ يَشْفِيَكَ

When someone you love is ill

Said seven times at the side of one who is sick.

ṢaḥīḥJāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī 2083

لاَ بَأْسَ طَهُورٌ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ

When you sit with someone who is ill

What the Prophet ﷺ would say to comfort the one who was sick.

ṢaḥīḥṢaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 3616

اللَّهُمَّ رَبَّ النَّاسِ أَذْهِبِ الْبَاسَ، اشْفِهِ وَأَنْتَ الشَّافِي، لاَ شِفَاءَ إِلاَّ …

Asking for someone to be healed

The Prophet ﷺ would wipe with his right hand while saying it.

ṢaḥīḥṢaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 5743

اللَّهُمَّ فِي الرَّفِيقِ الأَعْلَى

The last words he ﷺ said

Spoken as he was dying, with his hand raised.

ṢaḥīḥṢaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 4437

اللَّهُمَّ اشْفِ سَعْدًا وَأَتْمِمْ لَهُ هِجْرَتَهُ

Praying for a particular person to be healed

The Prophet ﷺ said this over Saʿd, naming him, three times.

ṢaḥīḥṢaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 5659

وَنُنَزِّلُ مِنَ ٱلْقُرْءَانِ مَا هُوَ شِفَآءٌ وَرَحْمَةٌ لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ ۙ وَلَا يَزِيدُ …

When you need something to hold on to

What the Qur'an says it is for.

Qur'anQur'an 17:82

ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَنِى فَهُوَ يَهْدِينِ وَٱلَّذِى هُوَ يُطْعِمُنِى وَيَسْقِينِ وَإِذَا مَرِضْتُ …

Who does the healing

Ibrāhīm ﷺ listing what his Lord does, and changing person for one clause

Qur'anQur'an 26:78-80

لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ، إِنَّ لِلْمَوْتِ سَكَرَاتٍ

What he ﷺ said while dying

Aisha watched him dipping his hand in water and wiping his face.

ṢaḥīḥṢaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 4449

اللَّهُمَّ اشْفِ سَعْدًا اللَّهُمَّ اشْفِ سَعْدًا

Sitting with someone frightened of dying

Saʿd wept when he ﷺ visited him during his illness in Makkah.

ṢaḥīḥṢaḥīḥ Muslim 4215

أَذْهِبِ الْبَاسَ رَبَّ النَّاسِ اشْفِهِ أَنْتَ الشَّافِي لاَ شِفَاءَ إِلاَّ شِفَاؤُكَ شِفَاءً …

Wiping with the right hand while saying it

Aisha described exactly what he did when he visited someone ill.

ṢaḥīḥṢaḥīḥ Muslim 5709

اللَّهُمَّ اغْفِرْ لِي وَاجْعَلْنِي مَعَ الرَّفِيقِ الأَعْلَى

What he said while Aisha held his hand

She was rubbing his hand with it while he was dying.

ṢaḥīḥṢaḥīḥ Muslim 5707

From the wider collections

Each of these passed the same grading rule. They are shown with the source narration rather than a written-out translation.

اشْفِ وَأَنْتَ الشَّافِي لاَ شِفَاءَ إِلاَّ شِفَاؤُكَ، شِفَاءً لاَ يُغَادِرُ سَقَمًا

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 5675 · Patients

Ṣaḥīḥ

اللَّهُمَّ رَبَّ النَّاسِ مُذْهِبَ الْبَاسِ اشْفِ أَنْتَ الشَّافِي لاَ شَافِيَ إِلاَّ أَنْتَ …

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 5742 · Medicine

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تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى عَلَى بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ وَمَاؤُهَا شِفَاءٌ لِلْعَيْنِ

Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 5345 · The Book of Drinks

Ṣaḥīḥ

اشْفِهِ أَنْتَ الشَّافِي لاَ شِفَاءَ إِلاَّ شِفَاؤُكَ شِفَاءً لاَ يُغَادِرُ سَقَمًا

Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 5709 · The Book of Greetings

Ṣaḥīḥ

أَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ الْعَظِيمَ رَبَّ الْعَرْشِ الْعَظِيمِ أَنْ يَشْفِيَكَ إِلاَّ عَافَاهُ اللَّهُ …

Sunan Abī Dāwūd 3106 · Funerals (Kitab Al-Jana'iz)

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اللَّهُمَّ بَيِّنْ لَنَا فِي الْخَمْرِ بَيَانًا شِفَاءً فَنَزَلَتِ الآيَةُ الَّتِي فِي …

Sunan Abī Dāwūd 3670 · Drinks (Kitab Al-Ashribah)

Ṣaḥīḥ

اللَّهُمَّ رَبَّ النَّاسِ مُذْهِبَ الْبَاسِ اشْفِ أَنْتَ الشَّافِي لاَ شَافِيَ إِلاَّ أَنْتَ …

Sunan Abī Dāwūd 3890 · Medicine (Kitab Al-Tibb)

Ṣaḥīḥ

أَسْأَلُ اللَّهَ الْعَظِيمَ رَبَّ الْعَرْشِ الْعَظِيمِ أَنْ يَشْفِيَكَ إِلاَّ عُوفِيَ

Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī 2083 · Chapters on Medicine

Ṣaḥīḥ

اللَّهُمَّ أَذْهِبِ الْبَأْسَ رَبَّ النَّاسِ وَاشْفِ فَأَنْتَ الشَّافِي لاَ شِفَاءَ إِلاَّ …

Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī 3565 · Chapters on Supplication

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سُبْحَانَهُ لَمْ يَضَعْ دَاءً إِلاَّ وَضَعَ مَعَهُ شِفَاءً إِلاَّ الْهَرَمَ

Sunan Ibn Mājah 3436 · Chapters on Medicine

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