and said: “Your property, honor, and blood are inviolable to one another, just as this day of yours is sacred in this month of yours and this city of yours.”) p. 313.

Authentic. I believe it was cited earlier.

437 — (A hadith states: “Whoever says something untrue about a man, intending thereby to disparage him, Allah will confine him in the Fire of Hell until he can substantiate what he said about him.” Al-Tabarānī.) p. 313.

Al-Mundhirī said in al-Targhīb (302/3): “Al-Tabarānī narrated it with a good chain from Abū al-Dardā, from the Prophet—peace and blessings be upon him.” So he said, contrary to al-Haythamī’s statement in al-Majmaʿ (94/8): “Al-Tabarānī narrated it in al-Awsat from his shaykh Miqdām ibn Dāwūd, who is weak.” If the matter is as al-Haythamī stated—which I consider more likely—then al-Mundhirī’s grading of its chain as good is not sound.

I later came across al-Tabarānī’s chain in Zawāʾid al-Muʿjamayn (p. 486—the Meccan Sanctuary manuscript): Miqdām narrated to us: Asad ibn Sālim—thus it appears—narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj, from Mūsā ibn Uqba, from Amr ibn Abd Allah al-Awdī, from Abū al-Dardā, with the same report. He said:

“No one narrated it from Ibn Jurayj except Saʿīd.”

That is how it appears here, whereas earlier in the chain it reads “Asad ibn Sālim.” I believe this is a scribal error, and the correct reading, in my estimation, is Saʿīd ibn Sālim, namely al-Qaddāh al-Makkī, for he frequently narrated from Ibn Jurayj.

Upon examining the chain, the following matters became clear to me:

First: The matter is as al-Haythamī stated, not al-Mundhirī.

Second: It contains another flaw, namely this al-Qaddāh, about whom criticism has been expressed. Al-Hāfiz said:

“He was truthful, but prone to error.”

Third: Ibn Jurayj narrated it using the ambiguous formula “from.”

Fourth: I do not know Amr ibn Abd Allah al-Awdī among the transmitters of this generation.