80. Invocations

٨٠۔ كتاب الدعوات

80.31 To invoke for Allah's Blessings upon the children

٨٠۔٣١ باب الدُّعَاءِ لِلصِّبْيَانِ بِالْبَرَكَةِ وَمَسْحِ رُءُوسِهِمْ

[Machine] Abu Musa said, "A boy was born to me, and the Prophet ﷺ prayed for him to have blessings."

وَقَالَ أَبُو مُوسَى وُلِدَ لِي غُلاَمٌ، وَدَعَا لَهُ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ بِالْبَرَكَةِ.

bukhari:6352Qutaybah b. Saʿīd > Ḥātim > al-Jaʿd b. ʿAbd al-Raḥman > al-Sāʾib b. Yazīd

My aunt took me to Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said, "O Messenger of Allah ﷺ! My sister's son is sick." So he passed his hand over my head and invoked for Allah's blessing upon me and then performed the ablution. I drank from the water of his ablution and I stood behind him and looked at his Khatam (the seal of Prophethood) between his shoulders (and its size was) like the button of a tent.  

البخاري:٦٣٥٢حَدَّثَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ حَدَّثَنَا حَاتِمٌ عَنِ الْجَعْدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ قَالَ

سَمِعْتُ السَّائِبَ بْنَ يَزِيدَ يَقُولُ ذَهَبَتْ بِي خَالَتِي إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقَالَتْ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِنَّ ابْنَ أُخْتِي وَجِعٌ فَمَسَحَ رَأْسِي وَدَعَا لِي بِالْبَرَكَةِ ثُمَّ تَوَضَّأَ فَشَرِبْتُ مِنْ وَضُوئِهِ ثُمَّ قُمْتُ خَلْفَ ظَهْرِهِ فَنَظَرْتُ إِلَى خَاتَمِهِ بَيْنَ كَتِفَيْهِ مِثْلَ زِرِّ الْحَجَلَةِ  

bukhari:6353ʿAbdullāh b. Yūsuf > Ibn Wahb > Saʿīd b. Abū Ayyūb > Abū ʿAqīl

that his grandfather. ʿAbdullah bin Hisham used to take him from the market or to the market (the narrator is in doubt) and used to buy grain and when Ibn Az-Zubair and Ibn ʿUmar met him, they would say to him, "Let us be your partners (in trading) as the Prophet ﷺ invoked for Allah's blessing upon you." He would then take them as partners and he would Sometimes gain a whole load carried by an animal which he would send home.  

البخاري:٦٣٥٣حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ يُوسُفَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي أَيُّوبَ عَنْ أَبِي عَقِيلٍ

أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَخْرُجُ بِهِ جَدُّهُ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ هِشَامٍ مِنَ السُّوقِ أَوْ إِلَى السُّوقِ فَيَشْتَرِي الطَّعَامَ فَيَلْقَاهُ ابْنُ الزُّبَيْرِ وَابْنُ عُمَرَ فَيَقُولاَنِ أَشْرِكْنَا فَإِنَّ النَّبِيَّ ﷺ قَدْ دَعَا لَكَ بِالْبَرَكَةِ فَرُبَّمَا أَصَابَ الرَّاحِلَةَ كَمَا هِيَ فَيَبْعَثُ بِهَا إِلَى الْمَنْزِلِ  

bukhari:6354ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAbdullāh > Ibrāhīm b. Saʿd > Ṣāliḥ b. Kaysān > Ibn Shihāb

On whose face Messenger of Allah ﷺ had thrown water from his mouth, the water having been taken from their well while he was still a young boy (who has not yet attained the age of puberty).  

البخاري:٦٣٥٤حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الْعَزِيزِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ عَنْ صَالِحِ بْنِ كَيْسَانَ عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ قَالَ

أَخْبَرَنِي مَحْمُودُ بْنُ الرَّبِيعِ وَهُوَ الَّذِي مَجَّ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فِي وَجْهِهِ وَهْوَ غُلاَمٌ مِنْ بِئْرِهِمْ  

bukhari:6355ʿAbdān > ʿAbdullāh > Hishām b. ʿUrwah from his father > ʿĀʾishah

The boys used to be brought to the Prophet ﷺ and he used to invoke for Allah's blessing upon them. Once an infant was brought to him and it urinated on his clothes. He asked for water and poured it over the place of the urine and did not wash his clothes.  

البخاري:٦٣٥٥حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدَانُ أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ أَخْبَرَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عَائِشَةَ ؓ قَالَتْ

كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ يُؤْتَى بِالصِّبْيَانِ فَيَدْعُو لَهُمْ فَأُتِيَ بِصَبِيٍّ فَبَالَ عَلَى ثَوْبِهِ فَدَعَا بِمَاءٍ فَأَتْبَعَهُ إِيَّاهُ وَلَمْ يَغْسِلْهُ  

bukhari:6356Abū al-Yamān > Shuʿayb > al-Zuhrī

whose eye Messenger of Allah ﷺ had touched, that he had seen Saʿd bin Abi Waqqas offering one rakʿa only for the witr prayer.  

البخاري:٦٣٥٦حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْيَمَانِ أَخْبَرَنَا شُعَيْبٌ عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ قَالَ

أَخْبَرَنِي عَبْدُ اللَّهُ بْنُ ثَعْلَبَةَ بْنِ صُعَيْرٍ وَكَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَدْ مَسَحَ عَنْهُ أَنَّهُ رَأَى سَعْدَ بْنَ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ يُوتِرُ بِرَكْعَةٍ