A fuller treatment may be found in al-Taʿliqāt al-Jiyād and then in Irwāʾ al-Ghalīl 921.

He also states: “Al-Tirmidhī relates with a ḥasan chain that the Prophet ﷺ said, ‘Three people whose supplication is never turned back: a fasting person until he breaks his fast, a just ruler, and the oppressed.’”

I comment: It seems he assumed that the isnād is ḥasan simply because al-Tirmidhī graded the ḥadith as such, yet the two are not inseparable. A ḥadith may be judged ḥasan by al-Tirmidhī and others on account of supporting narrations, while the specific chain through which he cited it is not itself ḥasan. In such cases later scholars say, “It is ḥasan li-ghayrihi (sound due to corroborating evidence).” Reflect on this.

Furthermore, the report, both in al-Tirmidhī and elsewhere, hinges on Abū Mudillah. Ibn al-Madīnī said, “He is unknown,” and al-Dhahabī likewise remarked, “Hardly anything is known about him.” I have documented the ḥadith in al-Ḍaʿīfa 1358, where I noted that it contradicts another narration that I authenticated in al-Ṣaḥīḥa 596.