Najeeb al-Din Abū al-Murhaf al-Miqdād ibn Abī al-Qāsim Hibat Allāh ibn al-Miqdād ibn ʿAlī al-Qaysī informed us—when I read the report to him and he listened—saying: Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Maḥmūd al-Mubārak ibn al-Akhdar informed us, upon my reading to him; he said: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī al-Anṣārī informed us; he said: Abū Isḥāq al-Barmakī informed us; he said: Abū Muḥammad ibn Māsī informed us; he said: Abū Muslim al-Kajji related to us; he said: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī related to us; he said: Sulaymān al-Taymī told me, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said:
The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:
“There must be no mutual shunning among Muslims for more than three days”—or he said, “three nights.”