66 - Chapter: What to say upon opening the prayer

240 - Muhammad ibn Musa al-Basri narrated to us, saying: Ja'far ibn Sulayman al-Dubba'i narrated to us, from 'Ali ibn 'Ali al-Rifa'i, from Abu al-Mutawakkil, from Abu Sa'id al-Khudri, who said:

When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stood for prayer at night, he would say the takbir (Allahu akbar), then say: "Glory be to You, O Allah, and with Your praise; blessed be Your name, and exalted be Your majesty, and there is no god but You." Then he would say: "Allahu akbar, kabira" (Allah is the Greatest, greatly). Then he would say: "I seek refuge with Allah, the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing, from the accursed Satan, from his madness, his arrogance, and his poetry."(1)

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= Isma'il: Habib ibn Abi Habib, whose kunya was Abu al-Kashutha, and it is also said: Abu 'Umayra. This [statement] does not appear in any of our manuscript sources, nor in the commentaries of Ibn Sayyid al-Nas and al-Mubarakfuri.

(1) Sahih due to corroborating evidence, and this chain is hasan. It was also recorded, in extended and abridged forms, by Ahmad (11473), Abu Dawud (775), Ibn Majah (804), and al-Nasa'i 2/132.

It has a supporting witness from the hadith of 'A'isha which the author will mention later, and another from the hadith of Anas with a hasan chain recorded by al-Daraqutni 1/300, and al-Tabarani in al-Du'a (506).

On this topic, from 'Abdullah ibn Mas'ud from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): that he used to seek refuge from Satan, from his madness, his poetry, and his arrogance. Recorded by Ahmad (3828), Abu Ya'la (5380), and al-Bayhaqi 2/36.

It was also recorded as a mawquf statement of Ibn Mas'ud by al-Tayalisi (371), al-Tabarani in al-Kabir (9302), and al-Bayhaqi 2/36, and its chain is hasan.

And from Jubayr ibn Mut'im, recorded by Ahmad (16739) and Ibn Hibban (1779).

And from Abu Umamah al-Bahili, recorded by Ahmad (22177).

And from Ibn 'Abbas, recorded by al-Bazzar (3210), that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say: "O Allah, I seek refuge with You from Satan: from his madness and his arrogance — I think he said: and his poetry — and from the punishment..."