39- That refers to al-Asmāʾ wa-l-Ṣifāt (p. 401). The same report was also narrated by Ibn Khuzaymah (p. 70), al-Dārimī (p. 105), Abū Shaykh in al-ʿAẓamah (f. 34/2), and al-Lālakāʾī in Sharḥ Uṣūl Iʿtiqād Ahl al-Sunnah (1/91/2). The isnāds preserved by Sunayd ibn Dāwūd are sound, as Ibn al-Qayyim affirmed in Juyūsh (p. 100), and their chain is good.

49- Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAssāl likewise transmitted, with an authentic chain, the report from Ibn Masʿūd in which he said: “Whoever utters subḥān Allāh (Glory be to Allah), al-ḥamdu lillāh (Praise be to Allah), and Allāhu akbar (Allah is the Greatest), an angel receives them and ascends with them to Allah—glorified and exalted is He. He passes by no company of angels without their seeking forgiveness for the one who voiced them, until, by means of them, he enlivens the Countenance of the Most Merciful.”

50- Another narration from Ibn Masʿūd states: “A servant may resolve upon some affair—whether trade or authority—and when it becomes easy for him, Allah looks at him from above the seven heavens and says to the angels, ‘Turn him away from it, for if I facilitate it for him I shall admit him to the Fire.’” Al-Lālakāʾī reported it with a strong chain, 1/40.

40- Al-Lālakāʾī also cited it in al-Sunnah (p. 65) with a weak chain, as the compiler noted, and it is through that route that the author has reproduced it.

51- Ibn Masʿūd further said: “Allah, exalted is He, makes Himself manifest to the dwellers of His Paradise every Friday in a dense white cloud of camphor, granting them an honour the like of which they have never seen; they will hasten to draw near to Him just as they used to hasten to the Friday congregation.” Ibn Baṭṭah related it in al-Ibānah al-Kubrā with a good chain.

52- ʿĀʾishah said, “By Allah, I fear that had I wanted his killing I would have killed him”—meaning ʿUthmān—“but the knowledge of Allah is above His Throne that I did not wish for his death.” / 41

41- I say: Al-Dārimī recorded it in al-Radd ʿalā al-Jahmiyyah (p. 27), and its chain is sound.