Chapter 88
Remembrance 1 from Chapter 88
What to say when earning one’s livelihood becomes difficult
Arabic
Romanisation
Bismi-llāhi ‘alā nafsī wa mālī wa dīnī, Allāhumma raḍḍinī bi-qaḍā’ik, wa bārik lī fīmā quddira lī, ḥattā lā uḥibba ta‘jīla mā akhkharta wa lā ta’khīra mā ‘ajjalt.
Context
WE RELATE FROM the book of Ibn as-Sunnī from Ibn ‘Umar 
, who reported that the Messenger 
asked: “Is there anything to prevent any of you, when earning his livelihood becomes difficult, from saying when he goes out of his house: ‘With the name of Allah on myself, my wealth and my religion. O Allah, make me pleased with Your decree, and bless me in that which I have been allotted, so that I do not like to hasten what You have delayed, or to delay that which You have hastened’?” [1].
References
[1] Ibn as-Sunnī (352) and al-Futūḥāt (4/26). According to Ibn Ḥajar, this is a gharīb hadith which was reported by Ibn as-Sunnī and by Ibn ‘Adī in al-Kāmil. Its chain contains ‘Īsā ibn Maymūn, whose transmission is very weak.