Text of verse 2:156
ٱلَّذِينَ إِذَآ أَصَٰبَتْهُم مُّصِيبَةٌ قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّآ إِلَيْهِ رَٰجِعُونَ ١٥٦
Transliteration
alladhīna idhā aṣābathum muṣībatun qālū innā lillahi wa-innā ilayhi rājiʿūna
Translation
Who, when disaster strikes them, say, "Indeed we belong to Allāh, and indeed to Him we will return."
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Verse 156 of Surah Al-Baqarah (2:156), a Medinan surah, is in juz 2, on page 24 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 69 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 156
Al-Mukhtasar
The patient are those who, when they are struck by one of these hardships, say, in acceptance, that all power belongs to Allah, He deals with us as He wills, and we will return to Him on the Day of Judgement, and it is He Who created us and showers us with many blessings; so, to Him is our return and our end.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Al-Baqarah
Other translations of verse 156
Those when afflicted with a disaster, say, “We belong to Allah, and to Him we will return.”
Who, when afflicted with calamity, say: "Truly! To Allâh we belong and truly, to Him we shall return."
Who say, when a misfortune striketh them: Lo! we are Allah's and lo! unto Him we are returning.
Who say, when afflicted with calamity: "To Allah We belong, and to Him is our return":-
Who, when a misfortune befalls them, say: Surely we are Allah's and to Him we shall surely return.
Who, when an affliction afflicts them, say, "Surely we belong to Allah, and surely to Him we are returning."
Verse 156 word by word
ٱلَّذِينَ
alladhīna Those who
إِذَآ
idhā when
أَصَٰبَتْهُم
aṣābathum strikes them ص و ب
مُّصِيبَةٌ
muṣībatun a misfortune ص و ب
قَالُوٓا۟
qālū they say ق و ل
إِنَّا
innā Indeed, we
لِلَّهِ
lillahi belong to Allah
وَإِنَّآ
wa-innā and indeed we
إِلَيْهِ
ilayhi towards Him
رَٰجِعُونَ
rājiʿūna will return ر ج ع
Hadiths that cite this verse
Differing grades
Sunan Abu Dawud 3119
إِذَا أَصَابَتْ أَحَدَكُمْ مُصِيبَةٌ فَلْيَقُلْ { إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ } اللَّهُمَّ عِنْدَكَ أَحْتَسِبُ مُصِيبَتِي فَآجِرْنِي فِيهَا وَأَبْدِلْ لِي خَيْرًا مِنْهَا "
Narrated by Umm Salamah + 2 other versions
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Muttafaq ‘alayh (Bukhari and Muslim) Sahih al-Bukhari 1297
لَيْسَ مِنَّا مَنْ ضَرَبَ الْخُدُودَ، وَشَقَّ الْجُيُوبَ، وَدَعَا بِدَعْوَى الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ "
Narrated by Abdullah ibn Mas‘ūd + 17 other versions
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Muttafaq ‘alayh (Bukhari and Muslim) Sahih al-Bukhari 1298
لَيْسَ مِنَّا مَنْ ضَرَبَ الْخُدُودَ، وَشَقَّ الْجُيُوبَ، وَدَعَا بِدَعْوَى الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ "
Narrated by Abdullah ibn Mas‘ūd + 17 other versions
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Muttafaq ‘alayh (Bukhari and Muslim) Sahih al-Bukhari 3519
لَيْسَ مِنَّا مَنْ ضَرَبَ الْخُدُودَ، وَشَقَّ الْجُيُوبَ، وَدَعَا بِدَعْوَى الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ "
Narrated by Abdullah ibn Mas‘ūd + 17 other versions
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Sahih Muslim 918a
"No Muslim is afflicted with a calamity and then says what Allah has commanded: {We belong to Allah, and to Him we will return} [Surat al-Baqarah: 156], O Allah, reward me in my calamity and replace it for me with something better, except that Allah replaces it for him with something better." She…
مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمٍ تُصِيبُهُ مُصِيبَةٌ فَيَقُولُ مَا أَمَرَهُ اللَّهُ إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ اللَّهُمَّ أْجُرْنِي فِي مُصِيبَتِي وَأَخْلِفْ لِي خَيْرًا مِنْهَا . إِلاَّ أَخْلَفَ اللَّهُ لَهُ…
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