Volume 6, Book 60, Number 456:
Narrated Abdullah:
While we were with the Prophet in a cave, Surat wal-Mursalat was revealed to him 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, “Kill it!” We ran to kill it but it escaped quickly. The Prophet said. “It has
escaped your evil, and you too have escaped its evil.”