Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 33901 — What Allah the Exalted gave Muhammad

Sayyiduna Abd al-Rahman bin Abi Aqil (may Allah be pleased with him) said: We came in a delegation to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). One of us said: O Messenger of Allah, have you not asked your Lord for a kingdom like the kingdom of Sulayman (peace be upon him)? He laughed and said: Perhaps your companion has with Allah something better than the kingdom of Sulayman (peace be upon him). Allah did not send any prophet without granting him one supplication. Some of them chose the world by it, and Allah gave it to them; and some used it to pray against their people when they disobeyed, and so they were destroyed. Allah granted me a supplication, and I have stored it with my Lord as intercession for my Ummah on the Day of Resurrection.