Chapter 64
Remembrance 1 from Chapter 64
What to say when startled in one’s sleep
Arabic
Romanisation
A‘ūdhu bi-kalimāti-llāhi-t-tāmmāti min ghaḍabihi wa sharri ‘ibādih, wa min hamazāti-sh-shayāṭīni wa an yaḥḍurūn.
Context
WE RELATE FROM the Sunans of Abū Dāwūd, at-Tirmidhī and Ibn as-Sunnī, amongst others, from ‘Amr ibn Shu‘ayb who reported from his father who reported from his grandfather that the Messenger of Allah 
used to teach the Companions these words for moments of fear and terror: “I seek protection in the perfect words of Allah from His wrath and from the evil of His slaves, and the enticements of demons, and from them approaching me.” [1].
References
[1] Abū Dāwūd (3893), at-Tirmidhī (3519), Ibn as-Sunnī (753), Aḥmad (2/181), and al-Ḥākim (1/548).