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5440. It was narrated that ‘Uqbah bin ‘Âmir said: “I was walking with the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ and he said: “O ‘Uqbah, say!’ I said: ‘What should I say, O Messenger of Allâh?’ He did not answer me, then he said: ‘O ‘Uqbah, say!’ I said: ‘What should I say, O Messenger of Allâh?’ But he did not answer me. I said: ‘O Allâh, make him answer me.’ He said: ‘O ‘Uqbah, say!’ I said: ‘What should I say, O Messenger of Allâh?’ He said: ‘Say: I seek refuge with (Allâh) the Lord of the daybreak...’[2] So I recited it until I came to the end. Then he said: ‘Say,’ and I said: ‘What should I say, O Messenger of Allâh?’ He said: ‘Say: I seek refuge with (Allâh) the Lord of mankind...’[3] so I recited it until I came to the end. Then the Messenger of Allâh ﷺ said: ‘No one who asks has ever asked by means of anything like them, and no one who seeks refuge has ever sought refuge
with anything like them.”) (Hasan)
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Footnotes
1
[1] An-Nâs 114.
2
[2] Al-Falaq 113.
3
[3] An-Nâs 114.
Commentary
‘He did not answer me’: The Prophet’s ﷺ uttering the same thing and then falling silent was in order to arouse interest and attention in the mind of the interlocutor, so that the significance of the forthcoming facts might become clear to him.
