ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān and Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad narrated to us, saying:
Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir informed us, Saʿīd ibn Aḥmad informed us, ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Bundār informed us, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Mukhalliṣ reported to us, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad related to us, Muḥammad ibn Kathīr ibn Marwān al-Fihrī narrated to us, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Luhayʿah told me, from Abū Qabīl, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Whoever sneezes or belches and then says, al-ḥamdu li-llāh ʿalā kulli ḥālin mina al-ḥāl (Praise be to Allah in every circumstance), seventy diseases are repelled from him, the lightest of which is leprosy.”
This is an objectionable report; Ibn Luhayʿah is not strong enough to bear it, and it is transmitted only by al-Fihrī—and he is a shaykh of very weak standing (1).
Abū al-Maʿālī Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq narrated to us, al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Salām narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar the judge, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭarāʾifī, and Abū Ghālib Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī narrated to us, saying:
Abū Jaʿfar ibn al-Muslimah informed us, Abū al-Faḍl ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Zuhrī informed us, Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Firyābī informed us, Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd narrated to us, Ibn Luhayʿah narrated to us, from Mishraḥ ibn Hāʿān, from ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “The greatest number of hypocrites in my community are its reciters (2).” This.