46 - Chapter: The Virtue of Reciting the Two Refuge-Seeking Surahs (al-Muʿawwidhatayn)

953 - Qutaybah informed us, saying: al-Layth narrated to us, from Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, from Abū ʿImrān Aslam, from ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir, who said: I followed the Messenger of Allah ﷺ while he was riding, and I placed my hand on his foot, and I said: "Teach me, O Messenger of Allah, Surah Hūd and Surah Yūsuf." He said: "You will never recite anything more reaching before Allah than {Say: I seek refuge with the Lord of the dawn}."

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And Ibn Khuzaymah said: Our companions say: al-Thawrī erred in this ḥadīth, and I say: it is not improbable for Sufyān to narrate this from Muʿāwiyah and from others.

This ḥadīth will be repeated under number (5434), and it will come via the route of Khālid ibn Maʿdān, from Jubayr ibn Nufayr, with a different context, under number (5433).

And it will come with other contexts via the route of Aslam Abū ʿImrān, Qays ibn Abī Ḥāzim, ʿAbdullāh ibn Khubayb, Muʿādh ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Khubayb, Makḥūl al-Shāmī, al-Qāsim the freed slave of Muʿāwiyah, and Saʿīd al-Maqburī — all of them (through various chains) from ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir, under the numbers: (953), (954), (5430), (5431), (5435) … (5440).

Ibn Kathīr said in his commentary on Surah al-Falaq: These are chains from ʿUqbah that are nearly mutawātir (mass-transmitted), yielding certainty according to many of the verifying scholars of ḥadīth.

(1) In (R) and (M): "or Surah Yūsuf."
(2) After it in (H): "and say: I seek refuge with the Lord of mankind" — and it is a variant in the margin of (K), and it does not appear in the narration of "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" by the author.
(3) Its chain is authentic: Qutaybah is Ibn Saʿīd, and al-Layth is Ibn Saʿd. It is in "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" under numbers (1027) and (7790).
Aḥmad (17341) and (17455), and Ibn Ḥibbān (795) also narrated it via routes from al-Layth, with this chain.
Aḥmad (17418), the author in "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" (7791), and Ibn Ḥibbān (1842) also narrated it via routes from Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb with it. In the narration of the author and Ibn Ḥibbān there is an addition: "For if you are able to =