ibn ʿUtbah ibn Abī Waqqāṣ, who is unknown, as al-Ḥāfiẓ said. Al-Dhahabī said: “Ibn Lahīʿah alone narrated from him; it is not known who he is.”

596 — “Three supplications are answered, without doubt: the supplication of a parent, the supplication of a traveller, and the supplication of the one who has been wronged.”

It was recorded by al-Bukhārī in al-Adab al-Mufrad (32, 481), Abū Dāwūd (1536), al-Tirmidhī (2/256), Ibn Mājah (3862), Ibn Ḥibbān (2406), al-Ṭayālisī (2517), Aḥmad (2/258, 348, 478, 517, 523), Ibn Māsī in his collection of benefits, at the end of Juzʾ al-Anṣārī (fol. 9/2), al-Barzalī in A Treatise Containing Hadiths Selected from Juzʾ al-Anṣārī, hadith no. 15—the last one—and Ibn ʿAsākir in The History of Damascus (9/211/2), through several chains from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from Abū Jaʿfar, from Abū Hurayrah, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said it.

Al-Tirmidhī said: “This is a good hadith. This Abū Jaʿfar al-Rāzī, from whom Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr narrated, is known as Abū Jaʿfar al-Muʾadhdhin, and Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr narrated more than one hadith from him.”

I say: I have not found in any of the chains that Abū Jaʿfar was identified as al-Rāzī. Besides being weak due to his poor retention, al-Rāzī did not meet Abū Hurayrah, and no narration from any of the Companions is reported from him. Rather, he is certainly someone else, for he explicitly stated that he heard from Abū Hurayrah in al-Bukhārī’s narration, as did Aḥmad in his version. Indeed, Ibn Māsī named him in his narration, saying: “From Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, from”