93 – I said: al-Dārimī recorded it in the two works just cited (pp. 106 and 28), and its chain is sound-fair.

108 – The report of Sālim ibn Abī l-Jaʿd: concerning the verse, “Indeed, your Lord lies in wait” he said, “Beyond the Ṣirāṭ there are bridges: a bridge on which the trust (al-amānah) stands, a bridge on which kinship stands, and a bridge on which the Lord—majestic and exalted—is.”
Al-ʿAssāl transmitted it with a sound chain.

94 – I said: al-Bayhaqī also cited it in al-Asmāʾ (p. 432) in suspended form, from Abū Fazārah reporting from Sālim ibn Abī l-Jaʿd. Abū Fazārah is trustworthy; his name is Rāshid ibn Kaysān. Al-Bayhaqī then supplied a continuous chain through his teacher al-Ḥākim, and it appears in al-Mustadrak (2/523) from al-Aʿmash, from Sālim ibn Abī l-Jaʿd, from ʿAbd Allāh. He said, “This is halted at ʿAbd Allāh; it is said that he is Ibn Masʿūd —may Allah be pleased with him—and, if so, it is mursal between him and Sālim ibn Abī l-Jaʿd.”
I say: therefore it is weak as a narration from Ibn Masʿūd, but sound as a narration from Sālim. Responsibility for it rests with the compiler—may Allah have mercy on him—because he did not reproduce the isnād for us to state our view. As for al-Ḥākim, he declared after it, “Its chain is sound,” and the author followed him!

109 – A ḥadith in Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʾ with a sound chain: from Mālik ibn Dīnār, who used to say, “Take it,” then he would recite, and then say, “Listen to the speech of the Truthful One from above His Throne.”

95 – So stated, and Ibn al-Qayyim agreed (p. 105)!!! Yet it warrants scrutiny, for in al-Ḥilyah (2/358) it comes by two routes through Siyyār. He narrated to us Jaʿfar, who said, “I heard Mālik ibn Dīnār” with that wording.
I said: Siyyār, the transmitter from Jaʿfar, is Ibn Sulaymān al-Ḍubʿī—also known as Ibn Ḥātim al-ʿAnazī, Abū Salamah al-Baṣrī. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said about him in al-Taqrīb: “Reliable, but prone to mistakes.” The author listed him in al-Mīzān and said:
“Acceptable in ḥadith. Ibn Ḥibbān declared him reliable. ʿUbayd Allāh al-Qawārīrī said, ‘He had no sense; he used to sit with me in the shop.’ He was asked, ‘Do you accuse him (of lying)?’ He replied, ‘No.’ Al-Ḥākim said, ‘Siyyār was the ascetic of his age, and Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal narrated much from him.’ Al-Azdī said: ‘He has objectionable narrations.’”
Al-Tahdhīb adds: “Abū Aḥmad al-Ḥākim said: ‘In his ḥadith are some objectionable reports.’ Al-ʿUqaylī said: ‘His ḥadith are objectionable,’ and Ibn al-Madīnī declared him weak.”
I say: a narrator of this calibre cannot furnish an authentic chain; even describing it as merely sound (ḥasan) is, at best, an instance of leniency—though such leniency is not intolerable.