Note: In al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr, al-Suyūṭī attributed this hadith to al-Tirmidhī on the authority of Abū Hurayrah! In fact, al-Tirmidhī, like the other collectors, narrates it from Ibn ʿAmr. As for the hadith of Abū Hurayrah recorded by al-Tirmidhī, it has a different wording and includes the addition: “Strike the heads.” This is a rejected addition with a weak chain of transmission; for that reason, I included it in “the other series” (1324).

This matter also misled al-Manāwī. After citing al-Tirmidhī’s authentication of the hadith and endorsing it, he wrote, after the words “from Abū Hurayrah”: “He said: I said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, whenever I see you, my soul is comforted …’” He thereby gave the impression that this was recorded by al-Tirmidhī, whereas it is found only in Aḥmad, through a route other than the one al-Tirmidhī authenticated—though the two are equally weak, as I have explained there.

572 — “Your smiling at your brother is charity; your enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong is charity; your guiding a man who is lost in the land is charity; your helping a man with impaired vision is charity; your removing a stone, thorn, or bone from the road is charity; and your pouring from your bucket into your brother’s bucket is charity.”

It was recorded by al-Tirmidhī (1/354), whose wording is given here; al-Bukhārī in al-Adab al-Mufrad (128); and Ibn Ḥibbān (864), through ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār, who said: Abū Zumayl narrated to us, from Mālik ibn Marthad, from his father, from Abū Dharr, attributed to the Prophet. Al-Tirmidhī said: “A good, singular hadith. Abū Zumayl’s name is Simāk ibn al-Walīd al-Ḥanafī.”

I say: He is trustworthy, as are the rest of the narrators, except Marthad, who is Ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Zumānī. Al-Dhahabī said: “He is not known; no one narrated from him except his son Mālik.” In al-Taqrīb, he is described as acceptable. I say: Perhaps Ibn Ḥibbān listed him in his al-Thiqāt (Trustworthy Narrators), in accordance with his well-known criterion, which would be consistent with