Ahmad ibn Hibat Allah informed us; Abu Rawh ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muhammad informed us; Zahir ibn Tahir informed us; Abu Bakr al-Bayhaqi informed us; Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Mansur al-Nuqani informed us; Abu Hatim Muhammad ibn Hibban narrated to us; Ahmad ibn al-Hasan al-Sufi transmitted the report (ḥāʾ).
Ahmad ibn Ishaq likewise informed us; Ahmad ibn Ṣurmā and al-Fath ibn ʿAbd Allah informed us and said: Muhammad ibn ʿUmar informed us; Ibn al-Naqqūr informed us; ʿAli ibn ʿUmar al-Harbi informed us; the Sufi related to us; Yahya ibn Maʿin related to us; ʿAbdah related to us, from Hisham ibn ʿUrwah, from Musa ibn ʿUqbah, from ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr al-Awdi, from Ibn Masʿud, who traced it back to the Prophet ﷺ: “The Fire is forbidden to everyone who is mild, gentle, approachable, and easy-going.”
Al-Tirmidhi (1) recorded the hadith through the narration of ʿAbdah ibn Sulayman and judged it sound (ḥasan).
I read this tradition to the judge Sulayman ibn Hamzah; he informed us, as did the ḥāfiẓ Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahid and ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muhammad—who said that Tamim al-Jurjani informed them; ʿAli ibn Muhammad al-Baḥāthī informed us; Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Zawzani informed us; Muhammad ibn Hibban narrated to us; al-Hasan ibn Sufyan narrated to us; Yazid ibn Salih and Muhammad ibn Aban al-Wasiti narrated to us, saying: Jarir ibn Hazim narrated to us; I heard Abu Rajaʾ al-ʿUtāridi say, “I heard Ibn ʿAbbas, while standing on the pulpit, say: ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “He will continue …”’”