431 – Al-Haytham b. Khārijah narrated to us; Ismāʿīl b. ʿAyyāsh narrated, from Isḥāq b. ʿAbd Allāh, from Makhḥūl, from Shuraḥbīl b. al-Simṭ, from Salmān, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, “Four deeds performed by the living continue to benefit the dead: a man who leaves behind righteous descendants who supplicate for him, and their supplication reaches him; a man who gives an ongoing charity, whose reward remains for him as long as it endures; a man who teaches knowledge that is acted upon after him, so he receives a reward equal to that of everyone who practices it, without anything being deducted from his own reward; and a man stationed in ribāṭ (guarding the frontier), whose deeds continue to increase for him until the Day of Reckoning.” ⦗614⦘

432 – By this same chain, from Isḥāq b. ʿAbd Allāh, from Abān b. Ṣāliḥ, from ʿĀmir b. Saʿd, from ʿAbd Allāh b. Masʿūd, from the Prophet ﷺ: the same report. ⦗615⦘

433 – Abū Bakr al-Tamīmī narrated to me; Ibn Abī Maryam narrated to me; Yaḥyā b. Ayyūb narrated to us; Ibn Zahr informed me, from ʿAlī b. Yazīd, from al-Qāsim, from Abū Umāmah, from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ: a report of similar meaning.