The Shaykh—may Allah have mercy on him—wrote in al-Ṣaḥīḥah:
“Note: In Sunan al-Tirmidhī the word karīm (Most Generous) appears after ʿafūw (All-Pardoning). This addition has no basis in any of the earlier sources, nor in any later works that quote them. It seems, therefore, to be an interpolation by a copyist or typesetter, for it is absent from the Indian edition of Sunan al-Tirmidhī with the commentary Tuḥfat al-Ahwadhī by Mubārakpūrī (4/264) and from other editions as well. What supports this conclusion is that al-Nasāʾī, in one of his transmissions, relates the hadith through the very chain found in al-Tirmidhī—both of them having taken it from their teacher Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd—yet without the additional word. The same surplus word appears in the booklet of our noble brother ʿAlī al-Ḥalabī, Muhadhdhab ʿAmal al-Yawm wa’l-Laylah by Ibn al-Sunnī (95/202), although it is not found in Ibn al-Sunnī, for he narrates it—like al-Nasāʾī—from Qutaybah and then attributes it to al-Tirmidhī and others. According to the canons of ḥadīth documentation, such an addition should have been placed between square brackets, as is the recognized practice today, with a note that it is unique to al-Tirmidhī. Sound verification, however, demands that it not be mentioned at all except to state that it has no foundation. Hence this clarification.”
(37) “Procrastination is a ray of Satan that he casts into the hearts of believers.” (Fabricated) — al-Ḍaʿīfah 1360.
The Shaykh—may Allah have mercy on him—said in al-Silsilah al-Ḍaʿīfah under hadith 1360 (p. 536):
“Note: In al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr the word appears as shiʿār, whereas the correct reading is what we have established. This is the wording found in al-Daylamī, as al-Manāwī noted, and the same is recorded in al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr.”
In my own copy of Daʿīf al-Jāmiʿ, third edition, the word is printed suʿār!
(38) This is a ḥadīth that the Shaykh—may Allah have mercy on him—initially graded very weak in Daʿīf al-Jāmiʿ (926). Its wording is:
“Worship the Most Merciful, feed the people, and spread peace; you will enter Paradise in peace.”
He later authenticated it in al-Ṣaḥīḥah, no. 571. The Shaykh said:
“It was recorded by al-Bukhārī in al-Adab al-Mufrad (981), al-Tirmidhī (1855), al-Dārimī, Ibn Mājah (3694), Ibn Ḥibbān (1360), Aḥmad, and Abū Nuʿaym in al-Ḥilyah, all through various chains from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, from his father, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr. Al-Tirmidhī remarked, ‘A ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth,’ and I say it is as he said. Its narrators are reliable; the only reservation concerns ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib’s confusion in old age, but since he is not alone in transmitting the report we are safe from that. A short while ago the same ḥadīth appeared (569 in al-Ṣaḥīḥah) on the authority of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām without the first clause, which in any case needs no supporting evidence given the numerous Qurʾanic verses and prophetic reports conveying its wording and meaning. In Ibn Mājah only the opening clause and the clause on spreading peace are recorded.”
Note: Al-Suyūṭī attributed this ḥadīth in al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr to al-Tirmidhī on the authority of Abū Hurayrah, whereas in fact al-Tirmidhī and the others narrate it from Ibn ʿAmr. The version from Abū Hurayrah that al-Tirmidhī does have is in a different wording and includes the phrase “and smite the necks,” an objectionable addition with a weak chain; for that reason I listed it in the other series (1324). And Allah knows best.
This is all that I have been able to gather. I ask Allah to make it beneficial, and may He shower the learned imām, Shaykh al-Albānī, with His vast mercy.
Written by the poor servant, Muḥammad Abū ʿUmar al-Atharī al-Filasṭīnī.
Note: What follows was added by the brother who posted the research on the website, in the order of his numbering; I (Abū Islām) have inserted it here.
(39) “This ummah will crowd around the Basin just as camels converge on a watering place after five days without drink.” The Shaykh graded it ḥasan in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Jāmiʿ (5068), then ruled it weak in al-Silsilah al-Ḍaʿīfah (hadith 5725) and in Daʿīf al-Mawārid (338).
The Shaykh said:
“In sum, the ḥadīth is weak because all of its routes revolve around Ibn Zubayriq. I seek Allah’s forgiveness for having previously strengthened it, even though I was following others. Praise be to Allah who enabled me to retract my error, which in turn had led to another when I listed it in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Jāmiʿ (5068). Whoever possesses a copy should strike it out and transfer it to the other book if he also owns Daʿīf al-Jāmiʿ. Allah is the Grantor of success.” (al-Silsilah al-Ḍaʿīfah, vol. 12, p. 502).
See also al-Ṣaḥīḥah under hadith 2145, pp. 179–180.
Muḥammad Abū ʿUmar adds:
“I acquired volumes 12 and 13 of al-Silsilah al-Ḍaʿīfah only recently, owing to the circumstances in our beloved Palestine—Allah is our helper—and I found additional ḥadīths about which the Shaykh had reversed his judgement, either authenticating after first weakening, or the opposite, or declaring a report fabricated after initially ruling it merely weak.”
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This is a ḥadīth the Shaykh—may Allah have mercy on him—graded weak in Daʿīf al-Jāmiʿ (1358) and later declared fabricated in al-Silsilah al-Ḍaʿīfah (5821). Its wording is:
(40) “The most detested of Allah’s servants to Allah is the obstinate, arrogant one who has not been tested in wealth or children.”
The Shaykh—may Allah have mercy on him—said: