Source Attribution
This excerpt is taken from the book Aḥkām wa Masā’il in the Light of the Qur’an and Sunnah by Shaykh Mubashir Ahmad Rabbani.
❖ Question:
Generally, at the end of the Noble Qur’an, a supplication is written:
اللهم آنس وحشتي في قبري
after completing the Qur’an. Is this supplication established from any authentic ḥadīth?
✿ Answer:
In the Indian subcontinent (Pakistan and India), the commonly printed copies of the Noble Qur’an often contain the following supplication at the end:
اللهم آنس وحشتي في قبري، اللهم ارحمني بالقرآن العظيم
This narration has been reported by al-Daylamī in his Musnad through the chain:
Layth bin Muḥammad → Aḥmad bin ʿAbdullāh bin Khālid → al-Walīd bin Muslim → Sālim al-Khayyāṭ → al-Ḥasan → Abū Umāmah رضي الله عنه (marfūʿ).
There are several reasons why this narration is unreliable:
① In this chain, Aḥmad bin ʿAbdullāh al-Jawbarī is well known for fabricating narrations.
② Layth bin Muḥammad is also declared abandoned (matrūk).
③ Sālim bin ʿAbdullāh al-Khayyāṭ is unknown (majhūl).
④ al-Walīd bin Muslim and al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī both practiced tadlīs, and their narrations here are disconnected.
Therefore, this narration is false and fabricated, and no authentic chain exists for it.
