Whoever sees someone who has been afflicted, and he says:
(الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الّذِي عَافَانِي مِمَّا ابْتَلاَكَ بِهِ وَ فَضَّلَنِي عَلَى كَثِيرٍ مِمَّنْ خَلَقَ تَفْضِيلاً )
(al-hamdu lillaahil-ladhee `aafaanee mim-mabtalaaka bihi wa faddalanee `alaa katheerin mimman khalaqa tafdeelaa),
[All praise is for Allaah, Who has saved me from that which He has afflicted you with, and has favoured me greatly over many of those whom He has created] ,
then he will be rendered safe from that affliction for as long as he lives.
This is a singular hadeeth; and in this regard, there is a report from Aboo Hurayrah. And `Amr ibn Deenaar, Qahrumaan, Aal az-Zubayr was a Shaikh of Basrah, and he was not strong in hadeeth; and he is alone in reporting some ahaadeeth from Saalim ibn `Abdillaah ibn `Umar. And it has been related from Aboo Ja`far Muhammad ibn `Alee that he said: If he sees a person who has been afflicted, then he should seek refuge, saying that to himself, and not causing the one who has been afflicted to hear it
- Shaikh al-Albaanee -rahimahullaah- said concerning the hadeeth: Hasan