I say: Its chain contains Ishāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Abbād, narrating from Abd al-Razzāq. I have not identified this Ishāq unless he is al-Dabarī, although I have found no one who named him by reference to his grandfather. Moreover, he is not among the narrators used by al-Bukhārī and Muslim, though he is an acceptable hadith narrator. Allah knows best.

407—(He—peace and blessings be upon him—said: “No one who severs ties will enter Paradise.” Narrated by al-Bukhārī and Muslim.)

p. 301.

Authentic. Al-Bukhārī narrated it (4/112), as he also did in his other work (64), as did Muslim (8/8) and al-Tirmidhī (1/348), from Jubayr ibn Mutim, who heard the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—say it. Muslim and al-Tirmidhī added: “Sufyān said: ‘Meaning one who severs ties of kinship.’” This addition appears as part of the hadith in Muslim’s narration, so one of the narrators must have interpolated it into the hadith. It is corroborated by a hadith of Abū Saīd al-Khudrī traced back to the Prophet. Ahmad narrated it (3/14, 83).

408—(He—peace be upon him—said: “The one who maintains ties of kinship is not merely one who reciprocates. Rather, the one who truly maintains them is the person who restores those ties when his relatives sever them.” Al-Bukhārī.) p. 302.

Authentic. Al-Bukhārī narrated it (4/113), as he also did in al-Adab al-Mufrad (68), as did al-Tirmidhī (1/348) and Ahmad (2/163, 190, 193), from Abd Allāh ibn Amr, traced back to the Prophet. At the beginning of one version, Ahmad added: “The bond of kinship is suspended from the Throne.” Its chain is authentic according to al-Bukhārī’s criterion.

409—(The hadith: “The Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him—and his Companions shunned the three who had been left behind during the expedition to Tabūk for fifty days, until the earth, despite all its vastness, closed in upon them,