love You, and love for deeds that bring me closer to Your love.”’ The Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) then said, ‘It is true, so learn it and study it.’

Abū Mūsā narrated to us: Mu‘ādh ibn Hāni’ narrated to us: Jahdam ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Qaysī narrated to us: Yahyā ibn Abī Kathīr narrated to us, from Zayd ibn Sallām, who said that ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Hadramī had narrated to him. Abū Mūsā said, ‘He is Ibn ‘Ā’ish.’ The hadith is as I have dictated it.

I say: This route of transmission is the most complete in both its chain and its text, and it clarifies the origin of the hadith, for another narrator related it from Ibn ‘Ā’ish, from