The upright and trustworthy shaykh, Taqī al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn Ḥamzah ibn ʿAlī al-Dimashqī al-Sulamī, in the city of Damascus—inside the Kallāsah section of its congregational mosque—narrated to us; he said:
The noble sharīf and naqīb, Fakhr al-Sharaf Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-ʿAbbāsī, narrated to us; he said:
Shaykh Abū al-Wafāʾ Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-ʿAkkī—may Allah have mercy on him—at the Sacred Mosque in the year 517 AH, informed us; he said:
Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Anmāṭī, in the year 471 AH, informed us; he said:
The jurist Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Armawī, in the year 449 AH, informed us; he said:
The eminent qāḍī Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Muḥammad, known as Ibn Subk, through my recitation to him—may Allah have mercy on him—at the congregational mosque of the Caliph al-Qādir bi-Allah, Commander of the Faithful, after the Friday prayer in the last ten days of Jumādā al-Ākhirah of the year 409 AH, informed us; he said:
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Mūsā ibn Isḥāq al-Anṣārī, through recitation to him in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year 342 AH, narrated to us; he said:
Qurābah narrated to us; he said:
Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd al-Qurashī, better known as Ibn Abī al-Dunyā, narrated to us; he said:
1 – Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad al-Jarmī narrated to us; he said: Abū Tumaylah Yaḥyā ibn Wāḍiḥ narrated to us; he said: Bishr ibn Muḥammad al-Umawī narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, from Fāṭimah bint Ḥusayn, from Bilāl, who said ⦗21⦘:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “Every act of kindness is a charity. Kindness wards off seventy kinds of affliction and protects from an evil death. On the Day of Resurrection, kindness and wrongdoing will each be made manifest before the people: kindness will cling to its people, leading and driving them to Paradise, while wrongdoing will cling to its people, leading and driving them to the Fire.”