in Silsilat al-Aḥādīth al-Ḍaʿīfah under no. 997.

In short, of the four Imams the one who benefited most from this ḥadith is Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal—may Allah have mercy on them all—for he acted on the indication of the report in both related rulings, whereas the other scholars accepted it with respect to one issue but not the other.

37 – “Cover the vessel and tie the mouth of the waterskin, for during the year there is a night when pestilence descends; it never passes by a vessel that is left uncovered or a waterskin whose mouth is untied without some of that pestilence alighting in it.”

Muslim transmitted it (6/105) and Aḥmad (3/355) through the route of al-Qaʿqaʿ ibn Ḥakīm from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, traced back to the Prophet.

“Fasten” (awkiyū) means: tie their openings with a wikāʾ, the cord used to secure a waterskin and the like.

Another version in Muslim and elsewhere states:

“Cover the vessel, tie the waterskin, close the door and extinguish the lamp, for Satan neither unties a waterskin, nor opens a door, nor uncovers a vessel. If one of you finds nothing except to lay a stick across his vessel while mentioning the name of Allah, let him do so, for the little vermin—meaning the mouse—may set the people’s house on fire.”

The ḥadith has additional chains and wordings; I have collected them in Irwāʾ al-Ghalīl fī Takhrīj Aḥādīth Manār al-Sabīl, no. 38, which, Allah willing, will be published soon.