(2/147), and Ibn Mājah (1984), in abridged form. Al-Bukhārī (2/394) also reported its final sentence, with the wording: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) never exacted revenge for himself unless Allah’s sanctity was violated; then he exacted retribution for Allah’s sake.” This wording was also reported by Ahmad (6/116, 162, 182, 189, 223, 262).

253 – (He said (peace and blessings be upon him): “The most detested of lawful things in Allah’s sight is divorce. Allah has not made anything lawful that is more detested by Him than divorce.” Abū Dāwūd.) p. 200

Weak. Abū Dāwūd reported the first wording from Muhārib ibn Dithār, from Ibn Umar, traced back to the Prophet. He reported the other wording from Muhārib as a mursal narration, and that is the correct version, as I explained in al-Irwā (2040).

254 – (The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “There shall be neither harm nor reciprocating harm.”)

Al-Mughnī by Ibn Qudāma, vol. 7, p. 77. The hadith was reported by Ibn Mājah and al-Dāraqutnī, and it has several chains.) p. 206

Authentic when its various chains are taken together. I examined them exhaustively in the preceding source (896).

255 – (He said (peace and blessings be upon him): “I do not love men who repeatedly marry and divorce merely to sample women, nor women who do the same with men.” Al-Tabarānī and al-Dāraqutnī.) p. 206

Weak. I did not find it in Sunan al-Dāraqutnī, which is the work scholars mean when citing al-Dāraqutnī without qualification. Nor did al-Haythamī include it in his Majma al-Zawāid, in which he compiled the supplementary narrations found in al-Tabarānī’s three hadith compendia and the Musnads of Ahmad, Abū Ya'lā, and al-Bazzār. Had al-Tabarānī reported it with this wording, al-Haythamī would have included it, Allah willing. He included only al-Tabarānī’s narration with the wording that follows it. I therefore do not know the author’s source for this attribution—