Question 413: Which surahs are called 'Musabbihat'?

302 13 Feb 2021
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✅Answer: Please pay attention to the following narration:

1 عن جابر قَال سمِعْت أَبَا جَعْفَر يَقُولُ مَنْ قَرَأَ الْمُسَبِّحَاتِ كُلَّهَا قَبْلَ أَنْ يَنَامَ لَمْ يَمُتْ حَتَّى يُدْرِكَ الْقَائِمَ و إِنْ مَاتَ كَانَ في جِوَارِ مُحَمَّدٍ (النبي) (صلی الله علیه و آله)

📚 Al-Kafi, Vol. 2, p. 620

📚 Thawab al-A'mal - p. 146

Translation: Jabir said: I heard Imam Baqir, peace be upon him, saying: Whoever recites all the 'Musabbihat' before he sleeps will not die until he meets the Qaim (peace be upon him), and if he dies, he will be in the proximity of Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him.

2 قال امیرالمؤمنین علیه السلام فی حدیث اربعمائه : إِذَا قَرَأْتُمْ مِنَ الْمُسَبِّحَاتِ الْأَخِیرَةِ فَقُولُوا سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ الْأَعْلَی

📚 Khisal, p. 629

Amir al-Mu'minin said in the four-hundred-hadith: Whenever you recite the Musabbihat surahs at the end of the Quran (or the last Musabbihat which is Surah Al-A'la), say:

سُبْحَانَ اللَّهِ الْأَعْلَی

✅In Shi'a narrations, the Musabbihat surahs are not specified, but in some books of linguistics and other places, it is said that the Musabbihat are the surahs that begin with a glorification, or the surahs that begin with 'sabbaha' or 'yusabbihu,' or the surahs that begin with 'sabbaha' or 'yusabbihu' or 'sabbih.' These are:

1- Surah Al-Hadid (57): Sabbaha lillahi ma fi al-samawati wa al-ard...

2- Surah Al-Saff (61): Sabbaha lillahi ma fi al-samawati wa al-ard...

3- Surah Al-Jum'ah (62): Yusabbihu lillahi ma fi al-samawati wa al-ard...

4- Surah Al-Taghabun (64): Yusabbihu lillahi ma fi al-samawati wa al-ard...

5- Surah Al-Hashr (59): Sabbaha lillahi ma fi al-samawati wa al-ard...

✅According to another definition, this surah is also added:

6-سوره اعلی (87)سَبِّحْ بِاسم رَبِّکَ الأعلي

✅And according to another definition, this surah is also added:

7-سوره الإسراء(17): سُبْحَانَ الَّذِی أَسْرَیٰ بِعَبْدِهِ...

✅But ultimately, are the Musabbihat 5 surahs, 6 surahs, or 7 surahs, or something else?

Although the opinion of 6 surahs, which are: Al-Hadid, Al-Saff, Al-Jum'ah, Al-Hashr, Al-Taghabun, and Al-A'la, is more famous and appropriate, and one can also recite all seven surahs for caution to act upon the hadith, this is a question for which there is no way to find a precise answer except for the appearance of the Remnant of Allah, peace be upon him!

✨✨✨Mahdavi Point✨✨✨

✅To get a precise answer to this question sooner, we raise our hands in prayer and, among other things, act upon the following narration:

3️⃣'Abbad al-Mada'ini said: I entered Medina to see Imam Sadiq, peace be upon him, when he had finished the Dhuhr prayer and had raised his hands to the sky and was reciting this supplication:

أَیْ سَامِعَ کُلِّ صَوْتٍ أَیْ جَامِعَ کُلِّ فَوْتٍ أَیْ بَارِئَ کُلِّ نَفْسٍ بَعْدَ الْمَوْتِ أَیْ بَاعِثُ أَیْ وَارِثُ أَیْ سَیِّدَ السَّادَةِ أَیْ إِلَهَ الْآلِهَةِ أَیْ جَبَّارَ الْجَبَابِرَةِ أَیْ مَلِکَ الدُّنْیَا وَ الْآخِرَةِ أَیْ رَبَّ الْأَرْبَابِ أَیْ مَلِکَ الْمُلُوکِ أَیْ بَطَّاشُ أَیْ ذَا الْبَطْشِ الشَّدِیدِ أَیْ فَعَّالًا لِمَا یُرِیدُ أَیْ مُحْصِیَ عَدَدِ الْأَنْفَاسِ وَ نَقْلِ الْأَقْدَامِ أَیْ مَنِ السِّرُّ عِنْدَهُ عَلَانِیَةٌ أَیْ مُبْدِئُ أَیْ مُعِیدُ أَسْأَلُکَ بِحَقِّکَ عَلَی خِیَرَتِکَ مِنْ خَلْقِکَ وَ بِحَقِّهِمُ الَّذِی أَوْجَبْتَ لَهُمْ عَلَی نَفْسِکَ أَنْ تُصَلِّیَ عَلَی مُحَمَّدٍ وَ آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ أَهْلِ بَیْتِهِ وَ أَنْ تَمُنَّ عَلَیَّ السَّاعَةَ بِفَکَاکِ رَقَبَتِی مِنَ النَّارِ وَ 👈أَنْجِزْ لِوَلِیِّکَ وَ ابْنِ نَبِیِّکَ الدَّاعِی إِلَیْکَ بِإِذْنِکَ وَ أَمِینِکَ فِی خَلْقِکَ وَ عَیْنِکَ فِی عِبَادِکَ وَ حُجَّتِکَ عَلَی خَلْقِکَ عَلَیْهِ صَلَوَاتُکَ وَ بَرَکَاتُکَ وَعْدَهُ اللَّهُمَّ أَیِّدْهُ بِنَصْرِکَ وَ انْصُرْ عَبْدَکَ وَ قَوِّ أَصْحَابَهُ وَ صَبِّرْهُمْ وَ افْتَحْ لَهُمْ مِنْ لَدُنْکَ سُلْطَاناً نَصِیراً وَ 👈عَجِّلْ فَرَجَهُ وَ أَمْکِنْهُ مِنْ أَعْدَائِکَ وَ أَعْدَاءِ رَسُولِکَ یَا أَرْحَمَ الرَّاحِمِینَ

I said: Wasn't it that you were supplicating for yourself? He said: I supplicated for the light of the family of Muhammad! And for their vanguard and for the one who will avenge them on their enemies by the command of Allah! I said: May I be your ransom, when will his coming be? He said: When the one in whose hand is the creation and the command wills it! I said: Are there signs for him before that? He said: Yes, various signs! I said: Such as what? He said: The rising of a banner from the East and a banner from the West, and a sedition that will encompass the people of Zawra (Tehran or Baghdad), and the coming of a man from the descendants of my uncle Zayd in Yemen, and the looting of the cover of the House of Allah.

📚 Fallah al-Sa'il, p. 171

📚 Bihar, Vol. 86, p. 63

✨In hope of the day of relief ✨