Rabiʿah, from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Saʿīd ibn Suwayd, from Abū Ḥumayd—or Abū Usayd—who said:
“The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘When any of you enters the mosque, let him say, “O Allah, open for me the gates of Your mercy…,”’ and he mentioned the rest of the report (1). He then added:
‘I heard Yahyā ibn Yahyā say, “I copied this ḥadith from the book of Sulaymān ibn Bilāl,” and he said: “I have also been informed that Yahyā al-Himmānī adds: ‘and Abū Usayd’ (2).”’
Some of the high-level chains that have reached me through al-Himmānī are as follows:
Abū al-Maʿālī Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq in Egypt informed me; al-Fatḥ ibn ʿAbd Allāh the scribe informed us; Hibatullāh ibn al-Ḥusayn the accountant informed us; Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Naqqūr narrated to us; ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī the vizier dictated to us; Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī narrated to us; Yahyā ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd narrated to us; Sharīk narrated to us; Manṣūr narrated to us; Rabiʿī narrated to us; he said:
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (may Allah ennoble his face) narrated to us, saying:
‘Indeed, I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: “Do not fabricate lies about me. Whoever deliberately lies about me, let him enter the Fire (3).”’
Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Hibatullāh ibn Tāj al-Umanāʾ read this to me; ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad informed us in his written recension; Tamīm ibn Abī Saʿīd conveyed it to us audibly in the year 529 AH; Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān informed us; Abū ʿAmr Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdān al-Ḥīrī informed us in 374 AH; he said:
Abū Yaʿlā Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Mawṣilī informed us there in 336 AH, saying: ‘He narrated to us—’