hundred (500 AH), Saʿd ibn ʿAlī, the ḥadith master, informed us; ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Ursūfī informed us; Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Qaysarānī informed us. My uncle, Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, narrated to me; Aḥmad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bazzār narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hānī narrated to us; my father narrated to us, from Ibrāhīm ibn Abī ʿAblah, from Umm al-Dardāʾ, from Abū al-Dardāʾ:
From the Prophet ﷺ who said, “Whoever greets the morning sound in body, secure in his dwelling, and possessing the provision for that day, it is as though the whole world has been gathered for him.”
This is a singular ḥadith, and I do not know the standing of Hānī. (1)
And from al-Zanjānī’s poem:
Whatever the Companions unanimously agreed upon is conclusive proof—
that is the believers’ path for anyone who investigates.
So in holding fast to consensus—know this—lies happiness,
just as in adopting a solitary opinion there is a kind of peril. (2)
190 – Ibn Manẓūr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā al-Qaysī *
The Imām, the precise ḥadith scholar, Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Muḥammad ibn Manẓūr ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Manẓūr al-Qaysī, of Seville.
(1) Lisan al-Mizan, 6/186, records the narrator Haniʾ b. ʿAbd al-Rahman b. Abi ʿAblah, who reports from his uncle Ibrahim; his own son ʿAbd Allah b. Haniʾ transmits from him. Ibn Hibban, in al-Thiqat, remarks that Haniʾ sometimes related unusual reports. Ibn Hibban also lists the son, ʿAbd Allah, among the reliable narrators. By contrast, Abu Hatim al-Razi states in al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, 5/194–195: “When I reached Ramla I was told that this shaykh lived in a nearby village. I asked about him and was informed: ‘He is a man who lies.’ I therefore did not visit him and did not take any narration from him.” The hadith appears in Sahih Ibn Hibban (no. 2503) and in Abu Nuʿaym’s Hilyat al-Awliyaʾ, 5/249, through several chains that go back to ʿAbd Allah b. Haniʾ with the same isnad. Al-Bukhari in al-Adab al-Mufrad (300), al-Humaydi (439), al-Tirmidhi (2347) and Ibn Majah (4141) also transmit it via Marwan b. Muʿawiya al-Fazari — ʿAbd al-Rahman b. Abi Shumayla al-Ansari — Salama b. ʿUbayd Allah b. Muhsin — ʿAbd Allah b. Muhsin. No scholar other than Ibn Hibban has declared Salama trustworthy, whereas the remaining narrators are considered reliable. The report is further supported by a narration from Ibn ʿUmar cited by Ibn Abi al-Dunya.
(2) The two verses are cited in al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, 3/1178.
(*) See Ibn Bashkuwal, al-Sila, 2/548-549, and Ibn al-Saʿi’s Bughyat al-Multamis, p. 52.