The eighth hadith:
The imam, scholar, and ascetic Kamāl al-Dīn Abū Zakariyyā Yahyā ibn Abī Mansūr ibn Abī al-Fath ibn Rāfi ibn Alī al-Harrānī, Ibn al-Sayrafī, informed us through a reading to him in Shawwāl 668 AH: Abū al-Abbās Ahmad ibn Yahyā ibn Barakah, Ibn al-Dībqī, informed us through a reading to him which I heard: Abū Mansūr Abd al-Rahmān ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wāhid ibn al-Hasan al-Qazzāz informed us through a reading to him on 21 Jumādā al-Ūlā 534 AH: Abū Jafar Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Umar ibn al-Muslim al-Muaddil informed us by dictation from his own lips, assisted in the dictation by our shaykh Abū Bakr al-Khatīb, in Safar 463 AH: Abū al-Fadl Ubayd Allāh ibn Abd al-Rahmān ibn Muhammad al-Zuhrī informed us: Abū Bakr Jafar ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Mustafād al-Firyābī informed us: Qutaybah ibn Saīd narrated to us: Ismāīl ibn Jafar narrated to us, from Abū Suhayl Nāfi ibn Mālik ibn Abī Āmir, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, from the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, who said:
“The signs of a hypocrite are three: when he speaks, he lies; when he makes a promise, he breaks it; and when he is entrusted with something, he betrays that trust.”