Mishkat al-Masabih
Mishkat al-Masabih 2439
وَعَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ: كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِذَا سَافَرَ فَأَقْبَلَ اللَّيْلُ قَالَ: «يَا أَرْضُ رَبِّي وَرَبُّكِ اللَّهُ أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنْ شَرِّكِ وَشَرِّ مَا فِيكِ وَشَرِّ مَا خُلِقَ فِيكِ وَشَرِّ مَا يَدِبُّ عَلَيْكِ وَأَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنْ أَسَدٍ وَأَسْودَ وَمِنَ الْحَيَّةِ وَالْعَقْرَبِ وَمِنْ شَرِّ سَاكِنِ الْبَلَدِ وَمِنْ والدٍ وَمَا ولد» . رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Ibn ‘Umar reported that when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ travelled and night fell, he would say: ‘O earth, my Lord and your Lord is Allah. I seek refuge in Allah from your evil, the evil within you, the evil of what has been created in you, and the evil of whatever crawls upon you. I seek refuge in Allah from a lion, a black serpent, another snake, and a scorpion; from the evil of the inhabitants of this place; and from the evil of any parent and its offspring.’ Reported by Abu Dawud. The hadith was not studied by al-Albani.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The source’s expressions أسود and والد وما ولد admit more than one contextual interpretation; they are rendered conservatively and flagged.
وَمِنْ والدٍ وَمَا ولد
In the list of dangers, أسود may refer to a black serpent, while والد وما ولد is an elliptical expression whose referent is not explicit in this wording.
Should أسود be understood as a large black snake, and does والد وما ولد refer generally to parents and offspring or to a specific unseen creature and its progeny? The translation keeps the broad literal sense.