Chapter 20
Remembrance 4 from Chapter 20
What to say when entering and leaving the mosque
Arabic
Romanisation
A‘ūdhu bi-llāhi-l-‘Aẓīm, wa bi-wajhihi-l-karīm, wa sulṭānihi-l-qadīm, mina-sh-Shayṭāni-r-rajīm.
Context
We relate in ‘Abdullāh ibn ‘Amr ibn al-‘Āṣ 
that when the Prophet 
entered the mosque he would say: “I seek protection in Allah the Tremendous, His Noble Countenance, and His Pre-eternal Sovereign Might from Shayṭān the rejected.” He remarked that if one says this then Shayṭān says: “He has gained protection from me for the whole day.” [2].This hadith is ḥasan and is narrated by Abū Dāwūd with a good isnād.
References
[2] Abū Dāwūd (466) and al-Futūḥāt (2/47). Ibn Ḥajar states that this is a ḥasan gharīb hadith, all of whose narrators but two—Ismā‘īl ibn Bishr and ‘Uqbah ibn Muslim—are trustworthy and are narrators of ṣaḥīḥ hadiths.