1 – The righteous shaykh and imam ʿUmar ibn Abī Bakr ibn ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Tibbān told us, saying: The shaykh and imam Abū ʿAbd Allāh Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Bannāʾ al-Marwazī related to us as it was read before him, who said—through his chain of transmission—that Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd ibn Sufyān Ibn Abī al-Dunyā narrated to us; Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq ibn Ziyād al-Baṣrī narrated to us; he said: Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Rūmī narrated to us; he said: Muḥammad ibn Muslim al-Ṭāʾifī narrated to us, from Ibrāhīm ibn Maysarah, from Ṭāwūs, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “I bear witness before Allah that whenever an intelligent person stumbles, Allah raises him up; then, whenever he stumbles again, He raises him up—until his ultimate end is Paradise.” Muḥammad ibn Muslim expressed uncertainty concerning the third occurrence.