Sābūr. And nock the arrows of supplication before the arrows of bows.” There are many such examples in which these things are called ramparts, walls, armor, shields, and the like.

However, the supplication asked about has not been transmitted. What is prescribed is to use transmitted supplications, for supplication is among the finest acts of worship, and Allah has forbidden us to transgress in it. We should therefore follow what has been prescribed and established in the Sunnah, just as we should in other acts of worship.

Anyone who turns from prescribed supplications to others—even those found in the devotional litanies of certain shaykhs—would do better not to miss out on what is more perfect and excellent: the prophetic supplications. Muslims unanimously agree that these are better and more complete than other supplications, even if some shaykhs have uttered them. How much more so [when] (1) those very supplications may contain error, sin, or something else!

Among those most deserving of blame is someone who adopts a devotional litany not transmitted from the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—even if it belongs to one of the shaykhs, while abandoning the prophetic litanies recited by the master of the children of Adam, the leader of all creation, and Allah’s proof against His servants. And Allah knows best.