Desirability of Supplications during the Journey

باب استحباب الدعاء في السفر

Travel strips away the comforts of home and leaves a person exposed, tired, and dependent on Allah in a way settled life rarely demands. This short chapter teaches that the journey is not only a hardship to endure but a moment when the heart is unusually open and the tongue unusually sincere, and so it is a prime time for du'a.

Notice the company the traveller keeps in this hadith. His supplication is placed beside that of the wronged and that of a parent praying for a child, three states marked by raw, undisguised need. The lesson to carry is simple: when you set out on a road, do not waste the spiritual opening it brings, but turn to Allah while your heart is soft.

Hadith 980

Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:

عن أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه قال‏:‏ قال ‏:‏ رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏:‏ ‏ "‏ ثلاث دعوات مستجابات لا شك فيهن‏:‏ دعوة المظلوم، ودعوة المسافر، ودعوة الوالد على ولده‏" ‏ ‏(‏‏(‏رواه أبو داود، والترمذي وقال‏:‏ حديث حسن‏)‏‏)‏ وليس في رواية أبي داود‏:‏ “على ولده”

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, "Three supplications are answered without doubt. The supplication of the oppressed, the supplication of the traveller, and the supplication of the parent for his son." [At- Tirmidhi and Abu Dawud].

In plain words

The Prophet named three prayers that are surely answered: that of the oppressed, of the traveller, and of a parent for their child, so a traveller should make good use of this time of accepted supplication.

Reference : Riyad as-Salihin 980 In-book reference : Book 7, Hadith 25