50 – “I do not like to greet a man with salām while he is praying …”
Reported by al-Ṭaḥāwī on the authority of Jābir.
Authentic: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Jāmiʿ (5514).
Later classed as mawqūf: al-Silsilah al-Ṣaḥīḥah (2212).
51 – “No prayer a woman performs is more beloved to Allah than the one she offers in the darkest corner of her house.”
Related by Ibn Khuzaymah and al-Bayhaqī on the authority of Ibn Masʿūd.
Sound (ḥasan): Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Khuzaymah.
Later ruled weak: al-Silsilah al-Ḍaʿīfah (4453).
52 – “There is no Muslim—or any human being or bondsman—who, when evening comes, says … except that Allah will please him on the Day of Resurrection.”
Recorded by Ibn Abī Shaybah in al-Muṣannaf on the authority of Abū Salām, the Prophet’s servant.
Authentic: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kalim al-Ṭayyib (23); included there by oversight.
Later ruled weak: al-Silsilah al-Ḍaʿīfah (5020).
53 – “There is no day on which Allah releases more male—or female—slaves from the Fire … ‘What did He intend for these people?’”
Reported by Muslim, al-Nasāʾī, and al-Tirmidhī on the authority of ʿĀʾishah.
Authentic in its entirety.
Also authentic without the words “or a female slave,” for they have no basis: al-Silsilah al-Ṣaḥīḥah (2551).