Aḥmad has informed you: Ibn ʿAlī al-Māzinī—in the year 628 AH—and he endorsed it. ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan, the ḥāfiẓ of Baalbek (1), informed us, saying: Muhammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Furāwī informed us; Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr al-Harawī informed us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (2) ibn Abī Shurayḥ informed us; Abū Jaʿfar Muhammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār informed us; Ḥumayd ibn Zanjūyah al-Nasawī narrated to us; ʿUthmān ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to us; Ibn Luhayʿah narrated to us, from Abū Qabīl, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ, who said:
“Fasting and the Quran will intercede for their companion on the Day of Resurrection.
Fasting will say, ‘My Lord, I kept him from food, drink, and desires during the day, so allow me to intercede for him.’
The Quran will say, ‘My Lord, I kept him from sleep at night, so allow me to intercede for him.’
Thus they will both be permitted to intercede for him.”
Its chain of transmission is lenient (3).
(1) The original manuscript reads: bi-Balabakk, which is an error.
(2) Hadith specialists differentiate between the formulas haddathana ("he related to us") and akhbarana ("he informed us"). Quoting al-Hakim, Ibn al-Salah (p. 145) reports the following practice: when the transmitter receives the wording directly from a single shaykh, he says haddathani ("he related to me"); when others are present, haddathana; when the student himself reads the text to the shaykh, akhbarani ("he informed me"); and when someone else reads it aloud in the shaykh’s presence, akhbarana. Ibn al-Salah adds that this usage is likewise transmitted from Abd Allah b. Wahb, a disciple of Malik, and deems it sound. By contrast, Yahya b. Sa id considered akhbarana and haddathana identical in meaning, and Imam al-Tahawi even composed a treatise asserting their equivalence, a copy of which is preserved in the Zahiriya Library.
(3) The report is weakened by the presence of Ibn Lahi‘a and, in this wording, is only mawquf (stopping at the Companion). Yet Ahmad (Musnad 2/174) records it marfu (Prophetic) through Musa b. Dawud → Ibn Lahi‘a → Huyay b. Abd Allah → Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Habli → Abd Allah b. Amr. Al-Hakim (1/554) transmits it via Abd Allah b. Wahb, who said: “Huyay b. Abd Allah informed me…,” and declares it sound; al-Dhahabi concurs. Al-Haythami, in Majma 3/181, notes: “Ahmad and al-Tabarani relate it in al-Kabir, and the transmitters in al-Tabarani’s isnad are all those of the Sahih.”