Volume 3, Book 29, Number 56:
Narrated ‘Abdullah:
While we were in the company of the Prophet in a cave at Mina, when Surat-wal-Mursalat were
revealed and he recited it and I heard it (directly) from his mouth as soon as he recited its revelation.
Suddenly a snake sprang at us and the Prophet said (ordered us): “Kill it.” We ran to kill it but it es –
caped quickly. The Prophet said, “It has escaped your evil and you too have escaped its evil.”