to myself even for the blink of an eye, ever.”

Al-Nasa’i and others narrated it with a good chain of transmission, and al-Mundhiri declared it authentic. Its documentation has already been given under no. 227.

Note: Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah cited the hadith in question in al-Kalim al-Tayyib (no. 118) with Ibn al-Sunni’s wording, attributing it to al-Tirmidhi. Yet al-Tirmidhi relates it only with the wording, “kurbah” (distress). His student Ibn al-Qayyim followed him in this in al-Wabil al-Sayyib (235), and Shaykh al-Ansari—as was his habit—said nothing about it, nor did he uncover its hidden defect. Shaykh Abd al-Qadir al-Arna’ut did likewise in his edition of al-Nawawi’s al-Adhkar (p. 102). There, however, the hadith is given with al-Tirmidhi’s wording and attributed to him; yet he added afterward:

“Al-Hakim said: ‘This hadith has an authentic chain of transmission.’”

I have not found it in his al-Mustadrak, and I think he confused it with the aforementioned hadith of Fatimah, for that too is narrated from Anas, though through another route from him.

I then saw that Ibn Allan, in Sharh al-Adhkar (4/5), quoted something from al-Hafiz indicating that al-Nawawi was mistaken. Refer to it if you wish. *

3183—“When you hear roosters crowing [at night], ask Allah for His bounty [and turn to Him in earnest], for they have seen an angel. And when you hear a donkey braying [at night], seek refuge in Allah from Satan, for it has seen a devil.”

Recorded by al-Bukhari (3303), Muslim (8/85), Abu Dawud (5105), al-Tirmidhi (3455), al-Nasa’i in al-Sunan al-Kubra (6/427/11391) and Amal al-Yawm wa al-Laylah (no. 944), and Ibn Abi Shaybah (10/420/9854), all through the chain of transmission of Qutaybah ibn Sa’id: