“Ask Allah of His Bounty. For verily, Allah the Mighty and Sublime, loves to be asked, and the best of worship is awaiting relief.”  

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ سَلُوا اللَّهَ مِنْ فَضْلِهِ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ ﷻ يُحِبُّ أَنْ يُسْأَلَ وَأَفْضَلُ الْعِبَادَةِ انْتِظَارُ الْفَرَجِ  

“O Allah, indeed I seek refuge in You from laziness, helpless old age, and stinginess (Allāhumma innī aʿūdhu bika minal-kasali wal-ʿajzi wal-bukhl).” And with this chain, from the Prophet ﷺ, that he used to seek refuge from senility and the punishment of the grave.  

كَانَ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ يَقُولُ اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنَ الْكَسَلِ وَالْعَجْزِ وَالْبُخْلِ وَبِهَذَا الإِسْنَادِ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَتَعَوَّذُ مِنَ الْهَرَمِ وَعَذَابِ الْقَبْرِ قَالَ هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ  

that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “There is not a Muslim upon the earth who makes a duʿā’ to Allah with any supplication, except that Allah either (1) grants it to him, or (2) He turns away from him the like of it in evil; as long as he does not supplicate for something sinful, or the severing of the ties of kinship.”

So a man from the people said: “What if we increase [our duʿā’s]?” He ﷺ said: “[With] Allah is more.”  

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ: «مَا عَلَى الأَرْضِ مُسْلِمٌ يَدْعُو اللَّهَ بِدَعْوَةٍ إِلاَّ (١) آتَاهُ اللَّهُ إِيَّاهَا أَوْ (٢) صَرَفَ عَنْهُ مِنَ السُّوءِ مِثْلَهَا؛ مَا لَمْ يَدْعُ بِمَأْثَمٍ أَوْ قَطِيعَةِ رَحِمٍ»

فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْقَوْمِ: إِذًا نُكْثِرَ؟ قَالَ: «اللَّهُ أَكْثَرُ»