Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #26400

Muhammad bin Musa Al-Basri told us, Ja’far bin Sulaiman Al-Daba’i told us, on the authority of Ali bin Ali Al-Rifai, on the authority of Abu Al-Mutawakkil, on the authority of Abu Sa’id Al-Khudri said: When the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, stood up for prayer at night, he would say “Allahu Akbar” and then say, “Glory be to You.” O God, and with Your praise and glory be to Your name, and exalted is Your grandfather, and there is no god but You. Then he says, “Allah is the Greatest, the Greatest.” Then he says, I seek refuge in God, the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing, from Satan, the accursed, from his swaying, hissing, and his spitting.” Abu Issa said, and in the chapter on the authority of Ali And Aisha, Abdullah bin Masoud, Jabir, Jubayr bin Mutim, and Ibn Omar. Abu Issa said, and the hadith of Abu Saeed is the most famous hadith in This is the chapter. Some of the people of knowledge took this hadith, but most of the people of knowledge said what was narrated on the authority of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace. He used to say, “Glory be to You, O God, and with Your praise, and blessed be Your name, and exalted is your grandfather, and there is no god but You.” And this was narrated on the authority of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab and Abdullah bin Masoud. This is acted upon by most of the people of knowledge among the Successors and others. He spoke about The chain of transmission of the hadith of Abu Saeed: Yahya bin Saeed was speaking about Ali bin Ali Al-Rifa’i, and Ahmad said: This hadith is not authentic.