5438 - Qutaybah informed us, saying: Al-Layth narrated to us, from Ibn ʿAjlān, from Saʿīd al-Maqburī, from ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir, who said: I was walking with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, when he said: "O ʿUqbah, say." I said: "What should I say, O Messenger of Allah?" He remained silent toward me, then said: "O ʿUqbah, say." I said: "What should I say, O Messenger of Allah?" He remained silent toward me, so I said: "O Allah, send him back to me." Then he said: "O ʿUqbah, say." I said: "What should I say, O Messenger of Allah?" He said: "Say: I seek refuge with the Lord of the daybreak." So I recited it until I reached its end. Then he said: "Say." I said: "What should I say, O Messenger of Allah?" He said: "Say: I seek refuge with the Lord of mankind." So I recited it until I reached its end. Then the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said at that point: "No seeker has asked with the like of them, and no seeker of refuge has sought refuge with the like of them."

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= Also recorded by Aḥmad (17296) from Al-Walīd ibn Muslim, with this chain of transmission.
And the author recorded it in "Al-Sunan al-Kubrā" (7795) and (10659) via the route of ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak. And Al-Ṭaḥāwī in "Sharḥ Mushkil al-Āthār" (125) via the route of Bishr ibn Bakr, both from Ibn Jābir, with it, and in both of them the hearing of Al-Qāsim from ʿUqbah is explicitly stated, and the two narrations of the author are abridged.
(1) In (H): mā.
(2) A sound ḥadīth; its narrators are trustworthy, except Ibn ʿAjlān — namely Muḥammad — who is slightly below the rank of trustworthy. Qutaybah: he is Ibn Saʿīd, and Al-Layth: he is Ibn Saʿd, and it is in "Al-Sunan al-Kubrā" under numbers (7789) and (8009).
And there is a difference of opinion concerning it regarding Ibn ʿAjlān:
Al-Layth narrated it as in this narration, and Abū Khālid al-Aḥmar as found with Al-Ṭabarānī in "Al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (17/949), both from Ibn ʿAjlān, with this chain of transmission.
And Ibn Isḥāq differed from them — as in the "Sunan" of Abū Dāwūd (1463) — for he narrated it from Ibn ʿAjlān, from Saʿīd al-Maqburī, from his father, from ʿUqbah, with similar wording, and this is a good chain of transmission.
If Saʿīd al-Maqburī heard from ʿUqbah, then the narration of Ibn Isḥāq is among the additions in continuous chains.
And Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah narrated it — as in the "Musnad" of Al-Ḥumaydī (851) — from Ibn ʿAjlān, from Saʿīd al-Maqburī, from someone who narrated to him from ʿUqbah, with similar wording, and in its chain there is an unnamed narrator, and Allah knows best. =