Five in number, the supplicatory prayers for sustenance are as follows:
First: Mu'awiyah ibn 'Ammar has reported the following: I once asked Imam al-Sadiq ('a) to teach me a supplicatory prayer for more sustenance. He therefore taught me a supplicatory prayer that I have never seen more effective than it. It is the following:
Dua za kuomba riziki zilizopokewa ni tano kama ifuatavyo:
Kwanza: Mu'awiyah ibn 'Ammar amepokea yafuatayo: Nilimwomba Imam al-Sadiq ('a) anifundishe dua ya kuomba riziki zaidi. Alinifundisha dua ambayo sijawahi kuona yenye ufanisi mkubwa kuliko hiyo. Nayo ni hii ifuatayo:
Second: Imam al-Baqir ('a) is reported to have said to Zayd al-Shahham: For sustenance, you may say the following supplicatory prayer in the obligatory prayer while you are in the position of prostration:
Pili: Imepokewa kutoka kwa Imam al-Baqir ('a) akimwambia Zayd al-Shahham: Kwa ajili ya kupata riziki, unaweza kusoma dua ifuatayo katika swala ya faradhi ukiwa katika nafasi ya kusujudu:
يَا خَيْرَ الْمَسْئُولِينَ
Yā khayra al-masʾūlīna
O best of all those whom may be besought
Ee Mbora wa wote wanaombwa
وَيَا خَيْرَ الْمُعْطِينَ
Wayā khayra al-muʿṭīna
and O best of all those who may give,
na Ee Mbora wa wote wanaotoa,
ارْزُقْنِي وَارْزُقْ عِيَالِي مِنْ فَضْلِكَ
Arzuqnī wārzuq ʿiyālī min faḍlika
(please) provide me and my dependants with sustenance out of Your grace,
niruzuku mimi na familia yangu kutoka kwenye fadhila Zako,
Third: Abu-Basir is reported to have said: I complained to Imam al-Sadiq ('a) about poverty and asked him to teach me a supplicatory prayer for sustenance. He therefore taught me a supplicatory prayer after which I have never needed anything. Precisely, the Imam ('a) instructed me to say the following supplicatory prayer in the Night Prayer while I am in the position of prostration:
Tatu: Imepokewa kutoka kwa Abu-Basir akisema: Nilimshtakia Imam al-Sadiq ('a) kuhusu umaskini na nikamwomba anifundishe dua ya riziki. Alinifundisha dua ambayo baada yake sikuhitaji kitu tena. Imam ('a) alinielekeza nisome dua ifuatayo katika Swala ya Usiku nikiwa nimesujudu:
يَا خَيْرَ مَدْعُوٍّ
Yā khayra madʿuwwin
O best of all those whom may be besought,
Ee Mbora wa wote wanaoomba msaada,
وَيَا خَيْرَ مَسْئُولٍ
Wayā khayra masʾūlin
O best of all those whom may be begged,
na Ee Mbora wa wanaombwa,
وَيَا أَوْسَعَ مَنْ أَعْطَى
Wayā ʾawsaʿa man ʾaʿṭā
O most ample-giver of all those who may give,
na Ee Mtoaji mkarimu zaidi kuliko wote wanaotoa,
وَيَا خَيْرَ مُرْتَجًى
Wayā khayra murtajanā
and O best of all those whom may be pleased,
na Ee Mbora wa wote wanaotarajiwa,
ارْزُقْنِي وَأَوْسِعْ عَلَيَّ مِنْ رِزْقِكَ
Arzuqnī waʾawsiʿ ʿalayya min rizqika
(please) provide me with sustenance, grant me liberal sustenance,
niruzuku na unikunjulie katika riziki Yako,
وَسَبِّبْ لِي رِزْقًا مِنْ قِبَلِكَ
Wasabbib lī rizqan min qibalika
and cause me to receive sustenance from Your Presence,
