“Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl—that is, al-Bukhārī—informed me, saying: This Abū Lubābah was named Marwān, a client of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ziyād. He heard from ʿĀʾishah, and Ḥammād ibn Zayd heard from him.”

I say: Ibn Maʿīn said, “Trustworthy.” Ibn Ḥibbān listed him in al-Thiqāt, but Ibn Khuzaymah did not know him. Thus, in his heading for the hadith, he said: “Chapter: The desirability of reciting Banī Isrāʾīl … if this Abū Lubābah is one whose report may be adduced as evidence, for I do not know whether he was deemed reliable or criticized.”

I say: Al-Bukhārī and those who declared him trustworthy did know him; and one who has knowledge is proof against one who does not.

642 — “Whoever stands in prayer with ten verses shall not be recorded among the heedless; whoever stands with one hundred verses shall be recorded among the devoutly obedient; and whoever recites one thousand verses shall be recorded among those granted abundant reward.”

Abū Dāwūd recorded it (1/221—al-Tāziyyah), as did Ibn Khuzaymah in his Ṣaḥīḥ (1/125), Ibn Ḥibbān (662), and Ibn al-Sunnī (697), from Abū Suwayyah, who heard Ibn Ḥujayrah report from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ that the Messenger of Allah said this.

He said: “If the report is authentic, I do not know whether Abū Suwayyah was deemed reliable or criticized.”

I say: He is truthful, as stated in al-Taqrīb. His name was ʿUbayd ibn Suwayyah. Ibn Yūnus and Ibn Mākūlā said, “He was a man of merit.” Ibn Ḥibbān listed him in al-Thiqāt, and a number of narrators reported from him. Ibn Ḥujayrah, whose name was ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, was trustworthy and one of Muslim’s narrators. Thus, the chain of transmission is good.

It is corroborated by a report from Ibn ʿUmar, who related the same wording, except that in the final clause he said: “Whoever recites two hundred verses shall be recorded among the successful.”