Driving away the devil and his whisperings

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Seek refuge in Allah from him. The Prophet ﷺ would say in the night prayer:

أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ السَّمِيعِ الْعَلِيمِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ مِنْ هَمْزِهِ وَنَفْخِهِ وَنَفْثِهِ

A'udhu billahis-sami'il-'alimi minash-shaytanir-rajimi min hamzihi wanafkhihi wanafthih

I seek refuge in Allah, the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing, from Satan the accursed — from his goading, his puffing and his blowing.

Source Sunan Abī Dāwūd 775 Ṣaḥīḥ · Jāmiʿ at-Tirmidhī 242 Ṣaḥīḥ

Compiler cites Abū Dāwūd 1/206; see al-Albānī, Ṣaḥīḥ at-Tirmidhī 1/77; and the Qur'an, al-Muʾminūn 23:97–98

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Call the adhān. The Prophet ﷺ said:

إِذَا نُودِيَ لِلصَّلاَةِ أَدْبَرَ الشَّيْطَانُ وَلَهُ ضُرَاطٌ حَتَّى لاَ يَسْمَعَ التَّأْذِينَ

Idha nudiya lis-salati adbarash-shaytanu walahu duratun hatta la yasma'at-ta'dhin

When the call to prayer is made, Satan turns away, breaking wind, so that he does not hear the call.

Source Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 608 Ṣaḥīḥ · Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, The Book of Prayers — site no. 762 (similar wording) Ṣaḥīḥ

Compiler cites al-Bukhārī 1/151; Muslim 1/291

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The remembrance of Allah and recitation of the Qur'an drive him away. The Prophet ﷺ said:

لاَ تَجْعَلُوا بُيُوتَكُمْ مَقَابِرَ إِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ يَنْفِرُ مِنَ الْبَيْتِ الَّذِي تُقْرَأُ فِيهِ سُورَةُ الْبَقَرَةِ

La taj'alu buyutakum maqabira innash-shaytana yanfiru minal-baytil-ladhi tuqra'u fihi suratul-baqarah

Do not make your houses graveyards. Satan flees from the house in which Sūrat al-Baqarah is recited.

Among what drives Satan away: the morning and evening remembrances, those for sleeping and waking, for entering and leaving the home and the mosque, Āyat al-Kursī before sleep, the last two verses of al-Baqarah, saying reading no. 93 a hundred times (protection from Satan for that day), and the call to prayer.

Source Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, The Book of Prayer - Travellers — site no. 1716 Ṣaḥīḥ

Compiler cites Muslim 1/539