Supplicating for Forty Believers Before Supplicating For Yourself

Here is a ḥasan (Good) ḥadīth that says that if you do du’ā for forty mu’minīn before doing du’ā for yourself, your du’ā will be accepted.

عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ سَالِمٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَالَ مَنْ قَدَّمَ أَرْبَعِينَ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ ثُمَّ دَعَا اسْتُجِيبَ لَهُ

From Hishām bin Sālim from Abī `Abd Allāh (عليه السلام) said: “Whoever does (du’ā) for forty mu’minīn then does du`aa (for himself), it will be accepted”

Source:

1.     Al-Kulaynī, Al-Kāfī, ed. `Alī Akbar al-Ghaffārī, 8 vols., (Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 3^rd Edition, 1388 AH), vol. 2, pg. 509, hadeeth # 5

Grading:

1.     Al-Majlisī said this hadeeth is Hasan Kal-Ṣaḥīḥ (Hasan like a Ṣaḥīḥ)
à Mir’āt Al-`Uqūl (Tehran: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyyah, 1410 AH), vol. 12, pg. 173