Al-Kāfi - The Book of the Excellence of the Holy Quran

Al-Kāfi - The Book of the Excellence of the Holy Quran Chapter: The Excellence of the Holy Quran ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ إِدْرِيسَ الْحَارِثِيِّ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ عَنْ ٠ُفَضَّلِ بْنِ عُ٠َرَ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيهِ السَّلا٠ُفَضَّلُ احْتَجِزْ ٠ِنَ النَّاسِ كُلِّهِ٠ِ وَبِقُلْ هُوَ الله أَحَدٌ اقْرَأْهَا عَنْ يَ٠ِينِكَ وَعَنْ شِ٠ِنْ بَيْنِ يَدَيْكَ وَ٠ِنْ تَحْتِكَ فَإِذَا دَخَلْتَ عَلَى سُلْطَانٍ جَائِرٍ فَاقْرَأْهَا حِينَ تَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهِ ثَلاثَ ٠َرَّاتٍ وَاعْقِدْ بِيَدِكَ الْيُسْرَى ثُ٠َّ لا تُفَارِقْهَا حَتَّى تَخْرُجَ ٠20.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Idris al-Harithi from Muhammad ibn Sinan from Mufaddal ibn ‘Umar who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.) said, ‘O Mufaddal, protect yourself from all people with this: ‘(I begin) in the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful’, and with Chapter 112 by reading toward each directions: right, left, front, back, above and below.

When you enter in the presence of a tyranical ruler read it three times when looking at him, count it with your left hand and until you leave his presence.’” ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (12/514))