3893 - Musa ibn Isma'il narrated to us, Hammad narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn Ishaq, from 'Amr ibn Shu'ayb, from his father, from his grandfather: that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, used to teach them words [to say] in times of fear: "I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah, from His wrath and the evil of His servants, and from the whisperings of the devils and that they should attend me." And 'Abdullah ibn 'Amr used to teach them to those of his children who had reached the age of reason, and for those who had not reached the age of reason, he would write them down and hang them on him.

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= In this chapter, there is also [a report] from a man with al-Nasa'i in al-Kubra (10807) and (10808), but there is a discrepancy in its chain of transmission as al-Nasa'i clarified, and see further clarification of that in al-Musnad (23957).

Al-Khattabi said: "Al-hawb" means sin, and from it is the saying of Allah the Exalted: {Indeed, it was a great sin} [al-Nisa': 2]. And "al-hawbah" also [occurs] with the ha' opened and with the insertion of the letter ha'.

(1) A sound hadith by virtue of corroborating evidence, but this chain of transmission is weak. Muhammad ibn Ishaq - who is Ibn Yasar al-Muttalibi, their freed slave - is a mudallis who narrated without specifying his direct hearing. Hammad: he is Ibn Salamah. Ibn 'Abd al-Barr said in al-Tamhid 24/109: This is a well-known hadith, transmitted both with and without a complete chain.

It was also narrated by al-Tirmidhi (3839), and al-Nasa'i in al-Kubra (10533) and (10534) through multiple paths from Muhammad ibn Ishaq, with this chain. Al-Nasa'i added in his two narrations before the supplication: "In the name of Allah, I seek refuge in the words of Allah..."

It is in Musnad Ahmad (6696).

In this chapter, there is also [a report] from Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Ansari, from Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Habban, as a mursal [report] with Ibn Abi Shaybah 8/60 and 10/362, Ibn al-Sunni in 'Amal al-Yawm wa al-Laylah (755), Ibn 'Abd al-Barr in al-Tamhid 24/109, and al-Bayhaqi in al-Asma' wa al-Sifat, p. 185.

This is a mursal report whose narrators are trustworthy. It is with Malik in al-Muwatta' 2/950, from Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Ansari that he said: It reached me... the hadith.

And from Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir, also as a mursal report with Ibn al-Sunni (747), and in its chain is Abu Hisham al-Rifa'i, who is disputed, but it is suitable for consideration.

And see what will come under numbers (3898) and (3899) with the wording: "I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah from the evil of what He created," for it is sound. =