Supplication with the phrase: “I ask You by the right of those who ask You”

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Is it permissible to make supplication with this formula: “O Allah, I ask You by the right of those who ask You”?

The Shaykh:
This is mentioned in a hadith where the one who walks to the mosque says and so on. There are two answers regarding this hadith, both mentioned by Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah. The first answer is that the hadith is weak because its narrator is weak. He said that if it is authentic, the meaning of “by the right of those who ask You” is the right that Allah has obligated upon Himself, so that you ask Allah by this right that He has obligated upon Himself, which is that He will answer those who ask Him. “Call upon Me, and I will respond to you”—is this not a promise from Allah? It is a right that Allah has obligated upon Himself, and this is among His names and attributes. Yes.

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.

The Shaykh:
That He will answer them, and the right of those who work is that He will reward them. This is Allah, Exalted and Majestic, who has obligated this upon Himself. Yes.