Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 31497 — Reports from Ali on what remains

Abu Ja'far Muhammad al-Basri reports from a man called Salim that among the supplications of Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) is this: O Allah, make me one of those with whose deeds You are pleased, whose hopes You have shortened and whose lives You have lengthened, and to whom You will give a pure life and pure provision after death. O Allah, I ask You for a blessing that never ends, a joy that never turns back, and the company of Your Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and Ibrahim in the highest ranks of the everlasting Paradise. O Allah, grant me such an ardent longing that my heart trembles from it, tears flow from my eyes, a shudder comes over my body, my side parts from my bed, and I find its benefit in my heart. O Allah, purify my heart from hypocrisy, my breast from rancour, my deeds from showing off, my eye from treachery and my tongue from lying, and bless me in my hearing and in my heart. Accept my repentance; surely You alone are the Accepter of repentance, the Merciful. O Allah, I take refuge in Your honoured Face, which has illuminated the seven heavens, through which darkness has been removed and through which the affair of the first and the last has been set right, from Your wrath descending upon me, or Your displeasure descending upon me; from my abandoning the guidance that comes from You and following my desires; or from my saying to the disbelievers that they are more rightly guided than the believers. O Allah, be kind, tender and merciful to me, and compassionate in my need. O Allah, forgive me, O Forgiver; accept my repentance, O Accepter of repentance; have mercy on me, O Merciful One; and pardon me, O Forbearing One. O my God, grant me detachment from the world and enable me to strive in worship, and grant me to meet You upon a martyrdom whose glad tidings outrun its pain and whose joy outruns its grief. O my Lord, grant me at death radiance and delight, the coolness of the eye, and ease in death. O Allah, grant me in the grave firmness of speech, a sight that cools the eye, and spaciousness in my dwelling. O Allah, on the Day of Resurrection make me stand in such a place that through it my face is made bright, my words are made firm, my eye is cooled and my wish is fulfilled, and that You look at me with Your Face with a look through which I attain the fullness of honour with the Highest Companion in the highest of Illiyyin; for by Your blessing good deeds are completed. O Allah, I am weak; You created me from weakness and to weakness I am returning. The true will is Yours, so make me walk on the straight path of Your will.