English translation
5088. 'Abdullāh bin Maslamah narrated to us: Abū Mawdūd narrated to us, from someone who heard Abān bin 'Uthmān saying: 'I heard 'Uthmān bin 'Affān say: I heard the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ say: 'Whoever says, "Bismillāhilladhī lā yaḍurru ma'a ismihi shai'in fil-ardī wa lā fī-samā'i, wa huwas-samī'ul-'alīm (In the Name of Allāh with Whose Name nothing can harm on earth or in heaven, and He is the All-Hearing, All-Knowing)," three times, he will not be stricken with a sudden affliction until morning comes, and whoever says that when morning comes, he will not be stricken with a sudden affliction until evening comes.' Abān bin 'Uthmān was afflicted with paralysis, and the man who had heard this Hadīth from him started looking at him. He said to him: 'Why are you looking at me? By Allāh, I did not tell a lie about 'Uthmān, and 'Uthmān did not tell a lie about the Prophet ﷺ. But the day which that (paralysis) befell me, I got angry and forgot to say that.'" (Sahīh)
