"Who said the word?" He said: The young man remained silent, then he said: "Who said the word? For he has not said anything blameworthy." He said: O Messenger of Allah, I said it; I intended nothing by it but good. He said: "It did not stop short of the Throne of the Most Merciful, Blessed and Exalted be He" (1).

122 - Chapter: On the one who held that one should begin with "Subhanaka" (Glory be to You)

775 - 'Abd al-Salam ibn Mutahhir narrated to us, Ja'far narrated to us, from 'Ali ibn 'Ali al-Rifa'i, from Abu al-Mutawakkil al-Naji, from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, who said: When the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, rose at night, he would say the takbir (Allahu akbar), then say: "Glory be to You, O Allah, and with Your praise; blessed is Your name, and exalted is Your majesty, and there is no god other than You." Then he would say: "There is no god but Allah" three times, then say: "Allah is Most Great, greatly" — three times — "I seek refuge with Allah, the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing, from the accursed Satan, from his whisperings, his puffing, and his spitting," then he would recite (2).

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(1) Its chain is weak; Sharik — and he is Ibn 'Abdullah al-Nakha'i — is poor in memory, and 'Asim ibn 'Ubaydullah — and he is al-'Umari — is weak.
Ibn 'Adi also narrated it in the biography of Sharik in "al-Kamil" 4/1328 via the path of Yazid ibn Harun, with this chain, and said in it: "I saw twelve angels vying with one another as to which of them would write it," and he did not mention his saying: "It did not stop short of the Throne of the Most Merciful."
Al-Bazzar narrated it in his "Musnad" (3819) via the path of Mu'alla ibn Mansur, and Ibn Abi 'Asim in "al-Ahad wa al-Mathani" (325), and al-Diya' in "al-Ahadith al-Mukhtara" 8/(215) via the path of Muhammad ibn al-Tufayl al-Nakha'i, both from Sharik, with it, in the wording of Ibn 'Adi. And this wording is closer to the supporting evidences of this story mentioned before it than the wording of the author.
(2) This opening supplication is authentic as corroborated by others, but this chain contains some criticism; Ja'far — and he is Ibn Sulayman al-Dab'i — and 'Ali ibn 'Ali al-Rifa'i — although both are truthful — there is some criticism of them that lowers them from the rank of being cited as proof for what they uniquely narrated, and this is among that. =