Mālik ibn Sulaymān al-Ḥimṣī

And Salih ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Muqatil al-Qirati al-Baghdadi related to us; he said: al-Qasim ibn Nasr ibn Jibril related to me; he said: Malik ibn Sulayman al-Himsi related to us; he said: Ismaʿil ibn ʿAyyash related to us; he said: Abu Hanifa related to us, from Hammad, from Ibrahim, from ʿAlqama, may God have mercy on them, from ʿAbd Allah, may God be pleased with him; he said: The Messenger of God, peace be upon him, used to teach us to seek God's choice in a matter just as he taught us a sura of the Qurʾan. This is Salih ibn Ahmad's wording.

Salih ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Muqatil related to us; he said: al-Qasim ibn Nasr ibn Jibril related to me; he said: Malik ibn Sulayman al-Himsi related to us; he said: Ismaʿil ibn ʿAyyash related to us, from Abu Hanifa, from Hammad, from Ibrahim, from ʿAlqama, may God have mercy on them, from ʿAbd Allah, may God be pleased with him: He said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: When one of you intends a matter, let him perform ablution and pray two units, then say: O God, I seek Your choice through Your knowledge and seek ability through Your power, and ask of Your bounty. For You know and I do not know; You are able and I am not able; and You are the Knower of unseen things. [O God,] if this matter is good for me in my religion, good for me in my livelihood and good for me in the outcome of my affairs, make it easy for me and bless it for me.