Du’a for Finding a Lost Person

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

When Shaykh Swalih ibn Muhammad al-Ja’fari (q.s.), was a student in al-Azhar, he had one teacher who was blind, and whose young son would walk him from his home to al-Azhar Mosque and back.  One time when, Shaykh Swalih (q.s.) was away for a few days, this scholar lost his son, and his family searched for the boy for three days without being able to find him.  When Shaykh Swalih (q.s.) came back to the Azhar and greeted his teacher, the teacher said, “My son, O Swalih!’  When the shaykh became aware of the situation, he took his teacher’s hand, and told him to recite with him, this ayat from the Qur’an: 

سُوۡرَةُ الشّوریٰ

وَمِنۡ ءَايَـٰتِهِۦ خَلۡقُ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٲتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَمَا بَثَّ فِيهِمَا مِن دَآبَّةٍ۬‌ۚ وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ جَمۡعِهِمۡ إِذَا يَشَآءُ قَدِيرٌ۬ (٢٩) 

Wa min aayyaatihi khalqu as-samaawaati wa al-ardh wa maa batstsa fiihimaa min daabbati.  Wa Huwa ‘alaa jam’ihim idzaa yashaa’u qadiir.

And among His Signs is the Creation of the Heavens and the Earth and the living creatures that He has Scattered through them: and He has Power to Gather them together when He Wills. (Surah ash-Shura’:29) 

The scholar had barely finished repeating this verse after Shaykh Swalih (q.s.), when his young son appeared.  The scholar began kissing Shaykh Swalih (q.s.), saying to him, “You are blessed, Shaykh Swalih!  You are a wali of Allah (s.w.t.)!”