WE RELATE IN the Sunan of Abū Dāwūd that Abū al-Malīḥ—a well-known Tābī‘—narrated that a man reported: “I was riding behind the Prophet
when his animal stumbled. I said: ‘May Shayṭān perish.’ He
said: ‘Do not say: “May Shayṭān perish,” for if you say that he grows bigger, until he is as big as a house, and he says: “It is because of my power.” Instead, say: “In the name of Allah.” If you say that, he will shrink until he is as small as a fly.’” [1].
Bismi-llāh.
References
[1] Abū Dāwūd (4982) and Ibn as-Sunnī (510).