Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا سَيَّارُ بْنُ حَاتِمٍ أَبُو سَلَمَةَ الْعَنَزِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرٌ يَعْنِي ابْنَ سُلَيْمَانَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو التَّيَّاحِ قَالَ قُلْتُ لِعَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ خَنْبَشٍ التَّمِيمِيِّ وَكَانَ كَبِيرًا أَدْرَكْتَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ نَعَمْ قَالَ قُلْتُ كَيْفَ صَنَعَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَيْلَةَ كَادَتْهُ الشَّيَاطِينُ فَقَالَ إِنَّ الشَّيَاطِينَ تَحَدَّرَتْ تِلْكَ اللَّيْلَةَ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مِنْ الْأَوْدِيَةِ وَالشِّعَابِ وَفِيهِمْ شَيْطَانٌ بِيَدِهِ شُعْلَةُ نَارٍ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يُحْرِقَ بِهَا وَجْهَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَهَبَطَ إِلَيْهِ جِبْرِيلُ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَام فَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ قُلْ قَالَ مَا أَقُولُ قَالَ قُلْ أَعُوذُ بِكَلِمَاتِ اللَّهِ التَّامَّةِ مِنْ شَرِّ مَا خَلَقَ وَذَرَأَ وَبَرَأَ وَمِنْ شَرِّ مَا يَنْزِلُ مِنْ السَّمَاءِ وَمِنْ شَرِّ مَا يَعْرُجُ فِيهَا وَمِنْ شَرِّ فِتَنِ اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ وَمِنْ شَرِّ كُلِّ طَارِقٍ إِلَّا طَارِقًا يَطْرُقُ بِخَيْرٍ يَا رَحْمَنُ قَالَ فَطَفِئَتْ نَارُهُمْ وَهَزَمَهُمْ اللَّهُ تَبَارَكَ وَتَعَالَى.
English Translation
Sayyar ibn Hatim Abu Salamah al-Anazi told us: Ja'far - meaning Ibn Sulayman - told us: Abu al-Tayyah told us: I said to Abd al-Rahman ibn Khanbash al-Tamimi, who was an elderly man: "Did you meet the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him?" He said: "Yes." I said: "How did the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, act on the night when the devils sought to harm him?" He said: "The devils descended that night upon the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, from the valleys and mountain passes, and among them was a devil with a flame of fire in his hand, wanting to burn the face of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, with it. Then Jibril, peace be upon him, came down to him and said: 'O Muhammad, say.' He said: 'What shall I say?' He said: 'Say: I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah from the evil of what He has created, formed, and brought into being, and from the evil of what descends from the sky and what ascends into it, and from the evil of the trials of night and day, and from the evil of every visitor by night, except a visitor by night who brings good, O Most Merciful.' He said: So their fire was extinguished, and Allah, Blessed and Exalted, routed them."