Seeking refuge

Introduction

Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 6879

أَمْسَيْتَ أَعُوذُ بِكَلِمَاتِ اللَّهِ التَّامَّاتِ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا خَلَقَ لَمْ تَضُرُّكَ

amsayta aʿūdhu bikalimāti-Llāh at-tāmmāti min sharri mā khalaqa lam taḍurruka

Transliteration generated from the Arabic vowel marks

The full narration

Khaula bint Hakim Sulamiyya reported:I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: When any one of you stays at a place, he should say:" I seek refuge in the Perfect Word of Allah from the evil of that He created." Nothing would then do him any harm until he moves from that place. Abu Huraira reported that a person came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and said:" Allah's Messenger, I was stung by a scorpion during the night. Thereupon he said: Had you recited these words in the evening:" I seek refuge in the Perfect Word of Allah from the evil of what He created," it would not have done any harm to you

Source

Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim · 6879

Ṣaḥīḥ
  • Agreed upon as authentic (al-Bukhārī / Muslim)

Also narrated in Muwaṭṭa' Mālik 1740, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 6880.

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