Narrator: Abdullah ibn Mas‘ud (r.a.) — mawquf, via al-Sha‘bi
Numbering: Muhammad al-Sa‘id Zaghlul’s tahqiq · Also: Maktabat al-Rushd print 2188 (Nombor dalam cetakan Maktabah al-Rushd bagi riwayat yang sama.)
أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو الْحُسَيْنِ بْنُ بِشْرَانَ، أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ الرَّزَّازُ، ثَنَا سَعْدَانُ بْنُ نَصْرٍ، ثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ السَّكَنِ، عَنْ أَبِي عَوَانَةَ نَصْرِ بْنِ طَرِيفٍ، عَنْ عَاصِمٍ، عَنِ الشَّعْبِيِّ، عَنِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ فَقَالَ: «مَنْ قَرَأَ عَشْرَ آيَاتٍ مِنْ سُورَةِ الْبَقَرَةِ أَوَّلَ النَّهَارِ لَمْ يَقْرَبْهُ شَيْطَانٌ حَتَّى يُمْسِيَ، وَإِنْ قَرَأَهَا حِينَ يُمْسِي لَمْ يَقْرَبْهُ حَتَّى يُصْبِحَ، وَلَا يَرَى شَيْئاً يَكْرَهُهُ فِي أَهْلِهِ وَمَالِهِ، وَإِنْ قَرَأَهَا عَلَى مَجْنُونٍ أَفَاقَ: أَرْبَعُ آيَاتٍ مِنْ أَوَّلِهَا، وَآيَةُ الْكُرْسِيِّ، وَاثْنَتَيْنِ بَعْدَهَا، وَثَلَاثُ آيَاتٍ مِنْ آخِرِهَا».
From Ibn Mas‘ud, who said: “Whoever recites ten verses of Surah al-Baqarah at the start of the day, no devil will come near him until evening; and if he recites them in the evening, no devil will come near him until morning. Nor will he see anything he dislikes in his family or his wealth. And if they are recited over someone who has lost his mind, he will recover: four verses from its beginning, Ayat al-Kursi, two after it, and three from its end.”
Grade
Broken chain (munqati‘)
Marzuq ibn Hayyas al-Zahrani
Tahqiq of Musnad al-Darimi
He cites this Bayhaqi route (Shu‘ab no. 2412) as a supporting chain for the Darimi report, carrying the same defect: al-Sha‘bi did not hear from Ibn Mas‘ud.
Cited for the merit of the ten verses
Sheikh Redwan Muhammad Redwan
Himpunan Risalah, footnote no. 77
His Malay citation matches this wording, including the mention of “his family and his wealth”.
Acting on a weak report in fada’il al-a‘mal
Imam al-Nawawi writes in al-Adhkar: “The scholars among the hadith specialists, the jurists and others have said: it is permitted and encouraged to act, in matters of merit and of encouragement and warning, upon a weak hadith — so long as it is not fabricated (mawdu‘).” As for rulings such as the lawful and unlawful, sale, marriage and divorce, these may rest only on a sahih or hasan report.
The conditions Ibn ‘Allan states in al-Futuhat al-Rabbaniyya (1/84): (1) the report is neither fabricated nor severely weak; (2) it falls under an established general principle; and (3) when acting on it one does not hold it to be established from the Prophet (peace be upon him), but acts out of precaution.
Al-Adhkar, al-Nawawi — section on acting upon a weak hadith
Notes
The chain is munqati‘ (broken): the editor Marzuq al-Zahrani notes that al-Sha‘bi met Abdullah ibn Mas‘ud (r.a.) but did not hear from him directly.
This report is mawquf — in both books above it is the saying of Ibn Mas‘ud (r.a.) himself, not of the Prophet (peace be upon him). Sheikh Redwan cites a marfu‘ version (traced to the Prophet) from al-Tabarani and al-Hakim; Qawiy has not yet checked those texts, so there is no card for it.
This is the closest match to Sheikh Redwan’s first citation: it combines the morning–evening wording and the list of ten verses in a single report.