O Allaah recompense me for my affliction and replace it with something better than that

The Messenger of Allaah -sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam-said:

There is no one from among Allaah’s servants, who is afflicted with an affliction except that he says: –

إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ  اللَّهُمَّ أْجُرْنِي فِي مُصِيبَتِي وَأَخْلِفْ لِي خَيْرًا مِنْهَا

Indeed, we belong to Allaah and indeed to Him is our return – O Allaah recompense me for my affliction and replace it with something better than that

Inna lil-lahi wa inna ‘ilayhi raji’oona, ‘allahumma’jurnee fee museebatee, wa ákhliflee khayran minha

Except that Allaah compensates him in what he has been afflicted with, and gives him that which is better than the previous thing.

Hadeeth taken from ‘Saheeh al-Kalima at-Tayyib’, By Shaykhul Islaam Ibn Taymeeyah , Checked by Muhammad Nasir-rudeen al-Albani

Further Reading:

• Istirja (Inna Lillahi wa Inna Ilahi Raaji’oon) – Tafseer Ibn Katheer – Suratul Baqarah [Surah No.2]
• The Greater The Hardship The Greater The Reward – Abu Uwais Abdullaah Ali – Transcribed Lecture
• Testing Afflictions and Calamities – by Saleh asSaleh [ PDF ]