Uqba bin Amir said, "I met the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and he said to me, 'Uqba bin Amir, shall I not teach you surahs the like of which was never sent down in the Torah, nor in the Psalms, nor in the Gospel, nor in the Quran? Let no night pass over you without your reciting them in it, "Say, He is Allah, the One" [Ikhlas 112:1], "Say, I seek refuge with the Lord of the daybreak" [Falaq 113:1], and "Say, I seek refuge with the Lord of mankind" [Nas 114:1].'"Uqba said, "So no night has passed over me without my reciting them in it, and it is only right that I should not abandon them, since the Messenger of Allah ﷺ himself commanded me to recite them."
لقيت رسول الله ﷺ فقال لي: يا عقبة بن عامر، ألا أعلمك سورا ما أنزلت في التوراة ولا في الزبورولا في الإنجيل ولا في الفرقان مثلهن، لا يأتين عليك ليلة إلا قرأتهن فيها {قل هو الله أحد} و{قل أعوذ برب الفلق} و {قل أعوذ برب الناس}. قال عقبة: فما أنت علي ليلة إلا قرأتهن فيها، وحق لي أن لاأدعهن، وقد أمرني بهن رسول الله ﷺ.
Ahmad narrated it (17542), from Husayn bin Muhammad, who said, Ibn Ayyash (that is, Ismail) narrated to us, from Usayd bin Abdul-Rahman Khathami (who is Ramli), from Farwa bin Mujahid Lakhmi, from Uqba bin Amir, and he related it.Its isnad is hasan because of Ismail bin Ayyash, for his hadith is hasan when he narrates from the Syrians, and this is one of those cases.His saying, "Allah, the Self-Sufficient Master" [Ikhlas 112:2], is a restrictive construction indicating that this quality belongs to Allah alone. He is the Master who is turned to for support, to whom every creature turns, unable to do without him, while he has no need of them. In this is a refutation of what the people of shirk held during the Jahiliyyah, calling upon their idols to fulfill their needs and rushing to them in their calamities.Al-Samad is the Master to whom one turns in matters. And it has been said that al-Samad is the one who has no interior, so he neither eats nor drinks, and neither begets nor is begotten, because whoever is born will die, and this has come in the sahih.