Abū Zurʿah informed us; Makkī ibn Manṣūr informed us; Abū Bakr al-Ḥīrī narrated to us; Abū al-ʿAbbās Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb informed us; al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān informed us; Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Shāfiʿī narrated to us; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad narrated to us, from Rabīʿah ibn Abī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah:
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ruled that an oath together with a single witness establishes the claim. (1)
With this same chain, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz said: I mentioned the report to Suhayl, and he replied, “Rabīʿah—whom I regard as trustworthy—informed me that I had related it to him, although I no longer remember it.”
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz added: Suhayl had suffered an illness that damaged part of his memory, causing him to forget some of his narrations. After that, whenever he transmitted this report he would relate it through Rabīʿah, from himself, from his father.
Abū al-Maʿālī Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq informed us; al-Fath ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us; Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn informed us; Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Naqqūr informed us; ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī dictated to us; Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Aʿlā ibn Ḥammād al-Narsī narrated to us; Khālid ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Wāsiṭī narrated to us, from Suhayl, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, who said:
The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Faith comprises over sixty—or over seventy—branches. The highest of them is: ‘There is no god but Allah’; the lowest of them is removing something harmful from the road, and modesty is a branch of faith.”
This is a sound ḥadīth with an elevated chain of transmission.
It was recorded by the Six Imams (2) in their compilations through the narrations of Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, Ibn ʿAjlān, and Sulaymān ibn—