faith who is content with Allah as his Lord, Islam as his religion, and Muhammad as his Prophet.”

Muslim narrated this hadith in his Sahīh. Although the master did not mention that Muslim had narrated it, he transmitted it with an authentic chain of narration.

At the beginning of this chapter, however, he cited a weak—indeed, fabricated—hadith: the lengthy hadith of Jābir, which he transmitted through al-Fadl ibn ʿĪsā al-Raqāshī, from Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir, from Jābir. Although it is the first hadith he mentions in the chapter, the reports transmitted by al-Fadl ibn ʿĪsā are among the weakest and least credible. The leading scholars agree that they cannot be relied upon or cited as evidence, for their weakness is evident, even though he does not deliberately lie. For many ascetics