Ahmad ibn Ishaq informed us; al-Fath ibn ʿAbd Allah informed us; Hibat Allah ibn Ḥusayn informed us; Ahmad ibn Muḥammad al-Bazzāz informed us; ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī dictated it to us; Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd narrated to us; Sharīk narrated to us; Manṣūr narrated to us; Ribʿī ibn Ḥirāsh narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib narrated to us, saying:
“I certainly heard the Prophet ﷺ say, ‘Do not lie about me. Whoever deliberately lies about me, let him enter the Fire.’” (1)
This is a fair ḥadīth with an elevated chain. Its isnād is musalsal with the repeated formula haddathanā, something rarely encountered. Although its transmitters are truthful, five of them have been subjects of critique, yet the wording of the report is categorically affirmed.
Al-Baghawī likewise recorded it in al-Jaʿdiyyāt, saying, “ʿAlī narrated to us; Shuʿbah informed us; Manṣūr informed us.”
Ahmad ibn Salāmah licensed us, reporting from Ahmad ibn Muḥammad al-Taymī; Abū ʿAlī informed us; Abū Nuʿaym narrated to us; Sulaymān ibn Ahmad narrated to us; Isḥāq al-Dabarī informed us; ʿAbd al-Razzāq informed us; Maʿmar informed us, from Manṣūr, from Abū Wāʾil, from ʿAbd Allah:
A man said, “Messenger of Allah, how can I know when I have done well and when I have done wrong?”
He replied, “When you hear your neighbors saying, ‘You have done well,’ then you have done well; and when you hear them saying, ‘You have done wrong,’ then you have done wrong.” (2)
Abū Nuʿaym remarked, “This is singular among the narrations of Manṣūr.”
Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muʿaddal informed us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Aḥmad the jurist informed us in 616 AH; the preacher of Mosul, ʿAbd Allah, together with Shuhda the scribe and Tajannī al-Wahbāniyyah likewise said:
Ṭirād ibn Muḥammad al-Hāshimī informed us; Hilāl ibn Muḥammad informed us; al-Ḥusayn ibn Yaḥyā al-Mutawallī narrated to us; Abū al-Ashʿath narrated to us; Fuḍayl