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In al-Kafi, al-Kulayni has narrated on the authority of Abu-Basir that Imam al-Sadiq (a.s.) used to say the following supplicatory prayer in Ramadan:
اَللّٰهُمَّ اِنّي بِكَ وَمِنْكَ اَطْلُبُ حَاجَتِيْ،
O Allah, from You and by You, I beseech for settling my need.
وَمَنْ طَلَبَ حَاجَةً اِليَ النَّاسِ
If others beg people for settling their needs,
فَاِنِّي لَآ اَطْلُبُ حَاجَتي اِلَّا مِنْكَ
I ask none except You for settling my need;
وَحْدَكَ لَا شَرِيْكَ لَكَ،
from You alone, since You have no partner with You.
وَاَسْاَلُكَ بِفَضْلِكَ وَرِضْوَانِكَ
I thus implore You in the name of Your favor and Your pleasure,
اَنْ تُصَلِّيَ عَلٰى مُحَمَّدٍ وَاَهْلِ بَيْتِهِ،
to send blessings to Muhammad and his Household
وَاَنْ تَجْعَلَ لِيْ فِيْ عَامِيْ هٰذٰ اِلٰى بَيْتِكَ الْحَرَامِ سَبِيْلًا
and to choose for me a way to Your Holy House this year:
حِجَّةً مَبْرُوْرَةً
a pilgrimage that is admitted,
مُتَقَبَّلَةً زَاكِيَةً
accepted, pure,
خَالِصَةً لَكَ
and sincerely intended for You by which You delight me
تَقَرُّ بِهَا عَيْنِيْ،
and raise my rank with You.
وَتَرْفَعُ بِهَا دَرَجَتِيْ،
Confer upon me with the grace of making me cast my sight
وَتَرْزُقَنِيْ اَنْ اَغُضَّ بَصَرِيْ،
down (against what is illegal for me to look at),
وَاَنْ اَحْفَظَ فَرْجِيْ،
making me act chastely,
وَاَنْ اَكُفَّ بِهَا عَنْ جَمِيْعِ مَحَارِمَكَ،
and making me stop committing any deed that You have deemed unlawful
حَتّٰى لَايَكُوْنَ شَيْءٌ اٰثَرَ عِنْدِيْ مِنْ طَاعَتِكَ وَخَشْيَتِكَ،
so that nothing will be more preferred in my sight than obedience to You, fear of You,
وَالْعَمَلِ بِمَا اَحْبَبْتَ،
doing all that which You love,
وَالتَّرْكِ لِمَا كَرِهْتَ وَنَهَيْتَ عَنْهُ،
and avoiding all that which You have detested and warned against.
وَاجْعَلْ ذٰلِكَ فِيْ يُسْرٍ وَيَسَارٍ
(Please) make all that take place witheasiness, lenience,
وَ عَافِيَةٍ وَمَآ اَنْعَمْتَ بِهِ عَلَيَّ،
and good health as well as the grace that You have bestowed upon me.
وَاَسْاَلُكَ اَنْ تَجْعَلَ وَفَاتِيْ قَتْلًا فِيْ سَبِيْلِكَ،
I beseech You to cause me to die as martyr for Your sake,
تَحْتَ رَايَةِ نَبِيِّكَ مَعَ اَوْلِيَآئِكَ،
under the pennon of Your Prophet and in the line of Your intimate servants.
وَاَسْاَلُكَ اَنْ تَقْتُلَ بِيْ اَعْدَاۤءَكَ وَاَعْدَاۤءَ رَسُوْلِكَ،
I ask You to make me a means of killing Your enemies and the enemies of Your Messenger.
وَاَسْاَلُكَ اَنْ تُكْرِمَنِيْ بِهَوَانِ مَنْ شِئْتَ مِنْ خَلْقِكَ،
I ask You to honor me through humiliating any one of Your created beings that You choose,
وَلَا تُهِنِّي بِكَرَامَةِ اَحَدٍ مِنْ اَوْلِيَاۤءِكَ
and not to humiliate me through honoring any of Your intimate servants.
اَللّٰهُمَّ اجْعَلْ لِيْ مَعَ الرَّسُوْلِ سَبِيْلًا،
O Allah, find me a way with the Messenger.
حَسْبِيَ اللهُ مَا شَاۤءَ اللهُ۔
Allah is Sufficient unto me! Only that which Allah wants shall take place.
This supplication is called Dua al-Hajj. It has been narrated by Sayyid Ibn Tawus in al-Iqbal who said that Imam al-Sadiq(a.s.) used to say this supplicatory prayer after the Maghrib (sunset) Prayers in Ramadan. Moreover, Shaykh al-Kaf’ami, in al-Balad al-Amin, has narrated that it is recommended to say this supplicatory prayer every day in Ramadan and especially at the first night of it. As to Shaykh al-Mufid, he, in his book of al-Muqni’ah, has mentioned that this supplicatory prayer is exclusively said at the first night of Ramadan after the Maghrib Prayer.