Al-Adab Al-Mufrad — Hadith #47210

Abu Nu’aym told us, he said: Yunus told us, on the authority of Al-Minhal bin Amr, he said: Sa’id bin Jubayr told me, on the authority of Ibn Abbas, he said: If You have come to a fearsome ruler, and you are afraid that he will tyrannize you, so say: God is great, God is more powerful than all of his creation, God is more powerful than what I fear. And I beware, and I seek refuge in God, besides whom there is no god, the One who holds the seven heavens, lest they fall on the earth except by His permission, from the evil of your servant. So-and-so, his soldiers, his followers, and his followers from among the jinn and mankind, O God, be my neighbor from their evil, great is Your praise, and glory be to Your neighbor. Blessed be your name, and there is no god but you, three times.