Al-Haythamī said in al-Majmaʿ (6/282): “Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it from Muḥammad ibn ʿĀṣim, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Yazīd al-Rifāʿī. I did not know either of them, while the rest of its narrators are narrators of the Ṣaḥīḥ collections.”

I say: We have already established that ʿAbd Allāh is trustworthy. As for Muḥammad ibn ʿĀṣim, he is corroborated by Muḥammad ibn Makhlad, who is trustworthy; therefore, his unknown status does no harm. And ʿĀṣim—namely Ibn Bahdalah—was not relied upon by the two Shaykhs.

It also has another route: Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥammād al-Azdī narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥammād al-Baṣrī narrated to us; he said: al-Aʿmash narrated to us, from Abū Wāʾil, from ʿAbd Allāh, tracing it back to the Prophet, with the wording: “Overlook the sin of the generous person, for Allah takes hold of his hand whenever he stumbles.” Abū Nuʿaym transmitted it in al-Ḥilyah (4/108) and said: “Singular.”

I say: Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥammād al-Azdī apparently is al-Zuhrī al-Ḍarīr, whom al-Dāraquṭnī deemed weak. He then transmitted it (5/58–59) through al-Ṭabarānī, from Bishr ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Dārisī, who said: Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd al-ʿAtakī narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Ibrāhīm, from ʿAlqamah, from ʿAbd Allāh, with the wording: “Overlook...” Regarding this Bishr, Ibn ʿAdī said: