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3505. Ibrāhīm bin Muḥammad bin Sa'd narrated from his father, from Sa'd, that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "The supplication of Dhun-Nūn (Prophet Yūnus) when he supplicated, while in the belly of the whale was: 'There is none worthy of worship except You, Glory to You. Indeed, I have been of the transgressors. (Lā Ilāha Illā Anta Subhānaka Innī Kuntu Minaz-Zālimīn)' So indeed, no Muslim man supplicates with it for anything, ever, except Allāh responds to him." (Saḥīḥ)
[Muḥammad bin Yaḥyā said:] And Muḥammad bin Yūsuf said one time: "From Ibrāhīm bin Muḥammad bin Sa'd from Sa'd."
[Abū 'Eisā said:] More than one narrator reported this Hadīth from Yūnus bin Abī Ishāq, from Ibrāhīm bin Muḥammad bin Sa'd, and they did not mention "from his father" in it. Some of them – like Abū Aḥmad Az-Zubairī narrated it from Yūnus [bin Abī Ishāq], they said: "From Ibrāhīm bin Muḥammad bin Sa'd, from his father, from Sa'd" and it is similar to the narration of Muḥammad bin Yūsuf. [And Yūnus bin Abī Ishāq would sometimes
mention “from his father” in this Hadīth, and sometimes he would not mention it.]
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This supplication of Yūnus ﷺ in the same words that is present in the Quran in Sūrat Al-Anbiyā. In it the Divinity and purity of Allāh ﷻ has been mentioned and personal mistakes have been confessed. Further Yūnus did not dare to ask anything and left the affair with Allāh ﷻ to decide.
