Namaz of Jafar e Tayyar

Ja’far al-Tayyar’s Prayer is as precious as gold, since it is the most magnificent recommended devotional rite. Altogether with its great merits the most i

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Ja’far al-Tayyar’s Prayer is as precious as gold, since it is the most magnificent recommended devotional rite. Altogether with its great merits the most important of which is that it erases major sins, this prayer has been reported through authenticated chain of authority. The best time of its performance is the first hours of daylight on Fridays.

Text and Translation

Namaz of Jafar-e-Tayyaar

It consists of four units with two Tashahhuds (i.e. the part of prayers in which the two creeds of Islam are recited) and two Taslims. In the first unit, Surahs al-Faatehah and al-Zalzalah are recited, in the second, Surahs al-Faatehah and al-A’adeyaat, in the third, Surahs al-Faatehah and al-Nasr, and in the fourth, Surahs al-Faatehah and al-Tawheed. In each unit, after the recitation of the Surahs and before the genuflection (ruku'), the following litany (Tasbihat) should be repeated fifteen times:

سُبْحَانَ اللهِ وَالْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ

SUBHAANAL LAAHE WAL HAMDO LILLAAHE

All glory be to Allah, all praise be to Allah,

وَلَا اِلٰهَ اِلَّا اللهُ وَاللهُ اَكْبَرُ

WA LAA ELAAHA ILLAL LAAHO WAL LAAHO AKBARO.

there is no god save Allah, and Allah is the Greatest.

The same litany (Tasbihat) is repeated, yet ten times only, during the Ruku’, after the Ruku’ while standing erect, during the prostration (Sujud), after the first Sajdah, during the second Sajdah, and after the second Sajdah. The same thing is repeated in all of the four units of the prayer. Hence, the litany will have been repeated three hundred times.

Shaykh al-Kulayni has narrated that Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq (a.s.) said to Abu Saeed al-Madaaeni, “May I teach you something that you should recite in Ja’far al-Tayyar’s Prayer?” As the man answered in the affirmative, the Imam (a.s.) said: After you say the Tasbihat in the second Sajdah of the fourth unit, say the following litany:

سُبْحَانَ مَنْ لَبِسَ الْعِزَّ وَالْوَقَارَ

SUBHAANA MAN LABESAL I’ZZA WAL-WAQAARA

Glory be to Him Who has dressed Himself dignity and sobriety!

سُبْحَانَ مَنْ تَعَطَّفَ بِالْمَجْدِ وَتَكَرَّمَ بِهٖ

SUBHAANA MAN TA-A’TTAFA BIL-MAJDE WA TAKARRAMA BEHI

Glory be to Him Who has deigned and condescended with grandeur!

سُبْحَانَ مَنْ لَا يَنْبَغِي التَّسْبِيْحُ اِلَّا لَهٗ

SUBHAANA MAN LAA YANBAGHIT TASBEEHO ILLAA LAHU

Glory be to Him save Whom none is worthy of being glorified!

سُبْحَانَ مَنْ اَحْصٰى كُلَّ شَيْءٍ عِلْمُهٗ

SUBHAANA MAN AHSAA KULLA SHAY-IN I’LMOHU

Glory be to Him Whose knowledge has counted all things!

سُبْحَانَ ذِي الْمَنِّ وَالنِّعَمِ

SUBHAANA ZIL MANNE WAN-NE-A’ME

Glory be to the Lord of bounty and boon!

سُبْحَانَ ذِي الْقُدْرَةِ وَالْكَرَمِ

SUBHAANA ZIL QUDRATE WAL KARAME

Glory be to the Lord of omnipotence and nobility!

اَللّٰهُمَّ اِنِّيْ اَسْاَلُكَ بِمَعَاقِدِ الْعِزِّ مِنْ عَرْشِكَ

ALLAHUMMA INNE AS-ALOKA BE-MA-A’AQEDIL I’ZZE MIN A’RSHEKA

O Allah, I beseech You in the name of the objects of dignity in Your Throne,

وَ مُنْتَهَى الرَّحْمَةِ مِنْ كِتَابِكَ وَاسْمِكَ الْاَعْظَمِ

WA MUNTAHAR RAHMATE MIN KETAABEKA WAS-MEKAL A-A’ZAME

in the name of the utmost of mercy in Your Book, and in the name of Your Greatest Name

وَكَلِمَاتِكَ التَّامَّةِ الَّتِيْ تَمَّتْ صِدْقًا وَعَدْلًا

WA KALEMAATEKAT TAAAM-MATIL LATEE TAMMAT SIDQAN WA A’DLAN

and Your Accomplished Words, which have been accomplished truly and justly,

صَلِّ عَلٰى مُحَمَّدٍ وَاَهْلِ بَيْتِهٖ.

SALLE A’LAA MOHAMMADIN WA AHLE BAYTEHI.

send blessings to Muhammad and his Household.

Then, you may mention your needs in the form of supplication.

Shaykh al-Tusi and Sayyid Ibn Tawus both narrated that al-Mufaddal ibn ‘Umar said that he heard Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq (a.s.) saying the following supplicatory prayer after accomplishing Ja’far al-Tayyar’s Prayer:

يَا رَبِّ

YAA RABBE, YAA RABBE

O LORD, O LORD!