is the trade of the penniless; I have never seen anyone more humiliated than the hadith folk.
Isḥāq ibn Rāhawayh said, “I committed knowledge to writing, and I did not write from anyone whom I regard as more trustworthy than these two men: al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā and Yaḥyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Tamīmī.”
Muḥammad ibn Ḥamdūwayh al-Marwazī said, “Al-Faḍl al-Sinānī died on the very night Hirithmah ibn Aʿyan assumed the governorship of Khurāsān, the eleventh of Rabīʿ al-Awwal in the year 192 AH.”
ʿAbd al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Badrān and Yūsuf ibn Aḥmad informed us, saying: Mūsā ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir informed us; Saʿīd ibn al-Bannāʾ informed us; ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad informed us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Mukhalliṣ narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Maḥmūd ibn Ghailān narrated to us; al-Faḍl ibn Mūsā al-Sinānī narrated to us; al-Juʿayd informed us, from ʿĀʾishah bint Saʿd, who said:
“I heard Saʿd say: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘No one plots evil against the people of Madinah without melting away just as salt melts in water.’”
This hadith is sound (ṣaḥīḥ) and singular (gharīb). None of the compilers of the Six Books recorded it except al-Bukhārī (1), who transmitted it from a trustworthy narrator, from al-Sinānī; thus it has reached us with an elevated alternative chain.