DUA FOR GETTING MALE CHILD

Twenty-fourth: Imam Ja’far al-Sadiq (‘a) is reported to have said: When a woman is pregnant and after the passage of four months of her pregnancy, you (i.e. her husband) may turn her face towards the kiblah direction, recite Ayah al-Kursi, strike her side with your hand, and say this:

O Allah, I name him (i.e. the fetus) Muhammad.

If you do, Almighty Allah will decide the fetus to be male. If you name him Muhammad, he will be blessed. If you do not name him so, the matter will be up to Almighty Allah; if He wills, He will take him from you, and if He wills, He may keep him as gift from Him to you.