(1) Muslim and Abu Awana both include the report in their Sahih collections, narrated by Abu Hurayra. (2) It is related by Bukhari, 10/274; al-Tirmidhi, 2/129 (Bulaq ed.), who graded it sound; al-Baghawi in the Musnad of Ali ibn al-Jaʿd, 5/145/2; Ibn Hibban, al-Thiqat, 2/89; Abu Nuʿaym, Akhbar Isfahan, 1/120; Ibn ʿAsakir, Tahrim al-Abnah, 166/1; likewise Abu al-ʿAbbas al-Asam in the second part of his collection, no. 99 (my copy); and al-Dulabi, 1/105—all through the chain of Ibn ʿAbbas. It has corroborating narrations: from Abu Saʿid al-Khudri, cited by al-Haytham al-Dawri in Dham al-Liwat, 157/1; another from Abu Hurayra, recorded by Ibn ʿAsakir, 166/1, and also by Ibn Majah, 1903; and a third from Ibn ʿUmar in Juzʾ al-Shumukhi, no. 16. There is no doubt—for anyone whose natural disposition is sound and whose heart is upright—that