Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 25149 — A man who is frightened by something

Abu al-Tayyah relates that a man asked Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Khanbash (may Allah be pleased with him): What did the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) do when the devils sought to plot against him? Abdullah replied: Devils came to him from various valleys and descended from various mountains. Among them was a devil who had a large flame of fire, with which he wanted to burn the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). He (peace and blessings be upon him) was alarmed by him. Ja'far, the narrator, said: I think that he began to draw back. Jibril (peace be upon him) came and said: "O Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him), say." He asked: "What shall I say?" Jibril said: "Say: I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah Almighty, which no wicked or righteous person can pass beyond, from the evil of everything He created, spread and brought into being; and I seek refuge from the evil of everything that descends from the sky and ascends into it, from the evil of everything He has created in the earth and that comes out of the earth, from the evil of the trials of night and day, and from the evil of anything that comes by night, except what comes by night with good, O Most Merciful." The narrator said: So the fire of the devils was extinguished, and Allah Almighty foiled them.