A man came to the Prophet ﷺ and said, "I cannot learn anything from the Quran, so teach me something that will suffice me in its place."The Prophet ﷺ said, "Say, 'Glory be to Allah, all praise is due to Allah, there is no god but Allah, Allah is the greatest, and there is no power or strength except through Allah, the Most High, the Magnificent.'"The man said, "Messenger of Allah, this is for Allah, the Mighty and Majestic. What is there for me?"The Prophet ﷺ said, "Say, 'O Allah, have mercy on me, provide for me, grant me well-being, and guide me.'"When the man stood up, he gestured with his hand like this, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "As for this man, he has filled his hand with goodness."
جاء رجل إلى النبي ﷺ فقال: إني لا أستطيع أن آخذ من القرآن شيئا، فعلمني ما يجزئني منه، قال: قل سبحان الله، والحمد لله، ولا إله إلا الله، والله أكبر، ولا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله العلي العظيم. قال يا رسول الله! هذا الله عزوجل فما لي؟ قال: قل اللهم ارحمني وارزقني وعافني واهدني. فلما قام قال هكذا بيده، فقال رسول الله ﷺ: أما هذا فقد ملأ يده من الخير.
Abu Dawud (832) and Nasai (924) both narrated it through the route of Ibrahim bin Abdul-Rahman Saksaki, from Abdullah bin Abu Awfa, and he mentioned the hadith. Ibrahim bin Abdul-Rahman Saksaki has been criticized. Ahmad said, "Daif." Nasai said, "He is not that strong." But Ibn Adi said, "I have not found any hadith from him with an objectionable text, and he is closer to truthfulness than to anything else."I say, he is among the narrators relied upon by Bukhari. Ibn Khuzayma (544) graded it sahih, and Hakim (1/241) also graded it sahih and said, "It meets the standard of Bukhari." But Hafiz said in Hady, "He has only two hadiths in the Sahih, but even then he was not alone in narrating them."So he is among those whom Bukhari accepted for corroborating narrations. The hadith mentioned was also narrated by Tabarani and Ibn Hibban in his Sahih.Talha bin Musarrif corroborated him in it, narrating it from Abdullah bin Abu Awfa. Hafiz said, "But in its chain is Fadl bin Muwaffaq, whom Abu Hatim graded daif." Talkhis (1/236).I say, in Jarh wal-Tadil (7/68), Abu Hatim said, "He was a righteous shaykh but daif in hadith." So when the routes are combined with one another, they reach the level of hasan.