Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Yahya al-`Attar narrated to us. He said: Sa`d b. `Abdullah narrated to us. He said: Muhammad b. `Abd al-Jabbar narrated to me. He said: Al-Hasan b. `Ali b. Abi Hamza narrated to me from his father from Abi Basir.

I said to Abi `Abdillah al-Sadiq : What was the supplication of Yusuf in the pit, for we have disagreed regarding it. So, he said: When Yusuf was in the pit and despairing life, he said: “O Allah! If the mistakes and sins have covered my face for You, and if You do not grant my supplication after I have raised my voice [in prayer] to You, then I ask you by the right of Ya`qub, the elderly man. Have mercy on his weakness, and bring us together, for You know of his tenderness towards me and my longing for him.” Then, Abu `Abdillah al-Sadiq wept. Then, he said: I say: “O Allah! If errors and sins have changed my face with You, then do not raise a voice from me to You. Surely, I ask You by You, for there is nothing like You; and I turn to You through Muhammad Your Prophet, the Prophet of Mercy. O Allah, O Allah, O Allah, O Allah, O Allah (Allahumma in kanit al-khataya wal dhunub qad akhlaqat wajhi `indika fa lan tarfa` li ilayk sawtan, fa inni as’aluka bik, fa laysa ka mithlika shay’, wa atawajjahu ilayka bi Muhammad nabiyyika, nabi al-rahma. Ya Allah, ya Allah, ya Allah, ya Allah, ya Allah)!” He said: Then, Abu `Abdillah said: Say this, and increase in it, for surely, I say it frequently at great calamities.