What dua do I make for someone who is sick?

The Prophet (ﷺ) used to wipe over the sick person with his right hand and say: "Allahumma Rabb an-nas, adhhib al-ba's, ishfi anta ash-Shafi, la shifa'a illa shifa'uk, shifa'an la yughadiru saqama" — "O Allah, Lord of mankind, remove the harm and cure him; You are the Healer, there is no cure but Your cure, a cure that leaves no illness behind" (Sahih Muslim 2191; Sahih al-Bukhari 5743). He also taught that whoever visits a sick person whose appointed term has not yet come and says seven times, "As'alullaha al-'Azim, Rabb al-'Arsh al-'Azim, an yashfiyak" — "I ask Allah the Magnificent, Lord of the Magnificent Throne, to cure you" — Allah will cure him of that illness (Sunan Abi Dawud 3106; Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2083, both graded sahih). These words are a ruqyah taught by the Prophet himself, so the healing is asked of Allah alone — never of a grave, a saint, or an amulet — and seeking medical treatment alongside them is part of the Sunnah, for the Prophet (ﷺ) said, "There is no disease that Allah has created except that He also created its treatment" (Sahih al-Bukhari 5678). Visiting the sick and supplicating for them is not a mere courtesy: it is among the rights a Muslim has over another Muslim (Sahih al-Bukhari 1240).

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