Remembrance 14 from Chapter 60

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

We relate in the Sunans of Abū Dāwūd and others, with a ṣaḥīḥ isnād, that it is reported that a man from the Companions of the Messenger narrated: “I was sitting with the Messenger of Allah when a man from his Companions came and said: ‘Messenger of Allah, I was bitten last night and I could not sleep until morning.’ He asked: ‘By what?’ ‘A scorpion,’ the man replied. He said: ‘If you had said in the evening: I seek protection in the perfect words of Allah from the evil of that He created, nothing would have harmed you, if Allah willed.’” ^[24].

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