from Shaybān, from Yahyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from ʿUrwah, from his mother Asmāʾ bint Abī Bakr, may Allah be pleased with them both, who heard the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say from the pulpit:

“Nothing has greater protective jealousy than Allah, Mighty and Majestic.”

• (9) Chapter: An Exposition That Allah, Mighty and Majestic, Is a Shakhs (Being))

9 - Muhammad ibn al-Fadl ibn Muhammad al-Tāʾī informed us; Muhammad ibn ʿAdī ibn Hamdawayh al-Sābūnī narrated to us; Abū al-Hasan ibn Bashīr narrated to us; Kāmilah and al-Muqriʾ narrated to us; they both said: Abū ʿAwānah narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, from Wāqid, al-Mughīrah’s scribe, from al-Mughīrah, may Allah be pleased with him, who reported that Saʿd ibn ʿUbādah said: “If I saw a man with my wife