Al-Nawawī, in al-Adhkār, affirmed this addition, and Ibn al-Mulaqqin graded it sound, yet Ibn Ḥajar critiqued it on the grounds that the link between ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlī and Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī is broken.

As for al-Bayhaqī’s narration from Ibn ʿAbbās that it was “in the qunūt of the dawn prayer,” al-Ḥāfiẓ ruled its chain weak.

Glossary of key phrases in the supplication

• fī-man hadayta (among those You have guided): i.e., among the prophets, the most truthful, the martyrs, and the righteous. Some scholars hold that the preposition fī here and in the next clause carries the sense of “with.”

• ʿāfinī (grant me well-being): protect me from every outward or inward deficiency in this world and the Hereafter, and include me among those to whom You have granted well-being.

• tawallanī (take me into Your care): guard me against every act of disobedience and every turning toward anyone but You, and include me among those You have taken into Your care; walāyah (friendship/protection) is the opposite of ʿadāwah (enmity).

• bārik lī (bless me): send down upon me Your supreme blessing of honor and nobility, and increase me out of Your bounty.

• fīmā aʿṭayta (in what You have given): the preposition fī functions adverbially and is attached to the verb that precedes it.

• qinī (protect me): grant me a safeguard from Yourself that shields me from the evil of what You have created and decreed.

• mā qaḍayta (what You have decreed): mā here is a relative pronoun meaning “that which.”

• innaka taqḍī (for You decree): this clause explains the foregoing request, for such great favors can be bestowed only by One whose power and decree are perfect—nothing of them exists with anyone else.

• lā yadhill (he is never disgraced): pronounced with a fatḥah on the yāʾ and a kasrah on the dhāl; it means the one You befriend is never weakened or humiliated. Dhull (abasement) is the opposite of ʿizz (honor).

• lā yaʿizz (he is never honored): pronounced with a fatḥah on the yāʾ and a kasrah on the ʿayn; it means the one You oppose never gains victory, being the converse of dhull.

Al-Suyūṭī said: There is unanimous agreement among the scholars of hadith, language, and morphology that the verb yaʿizz is read with a kasrah on the ʿayn and a fatḥah on the initial yāʾ.