Remembrance 12 from Chapter 51

A‘ūdhu bi-kalimāti-llāhi-t-tāmmāti min sharri mā khalaq.

We relate from Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim from Abū Hurayrah who narrated that a man came to the Messenger of Allah and said: “Messenger of Allah , what I have endured from the scorpion that stung me yesterday!” He replied: “If you had said in the evening: I seek protection in the perfect words of Allah from the evil that He created, it would not have harmed you.” Muslim narrated this with a continuous chain from a hadith reported by Khawlah bint Ḥakīm. And we relate from the book of Ibn as-Sunnī, who said in it: “Say three times ‘I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah from the evil He has created’ and you will not be harmed.” ^[13].

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