“The prayer was called in the mosque, and we came walking with ʿAbd Allah ibn Masʿud. When the people bowed, ʿAbd Allah bowed, and we bowed with him as we were walking. A man then passed in front of him and said, ‘Peace be upon you, Abu ʿAbd al-Raḥman.’ While bowing, ʿAbd Allah replied, ‘Allah and His Messenger have spoken the truth.’ When he had finished, some of the people asked him, ‘Why did you say, when the man greeted you, “Allah and His Messenger have spoken the truth”?’ He said, ‘I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say...’” He then cited it with the first wording.

I say: All its narrators are reliable except Mujālid—ibn Saʿīd—who is not strong. However, the other narration strengthens it: Sharīk narrated from ʿAyyāsh al-ʿĀmirī, from al-Aswad ibn Hilāl, from Ibn Masʿud, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said... He then cited it with the other wording.

Aḥmad recorded it (1/405–406). This chain of transmission is good for corroborating reports and supporting narrations. All its narrators are reliable except Sharīk—ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Qāḍī—whose memory was poor. Yet the hadith’s arrival through the preceding route reassures us that it is established and that he retained it accurately.

It is further strengthened by a third route from Ibn Masʿud, traced back to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with the same meaning. I have cited it shortly before this.

649 — “Among the signs of the Hour is that a man will pass through a mosque without praying two rakʿahs in it.”

Ibn Khuzaymah recorded it in his Ṣaḥīḥ, as did others, as a report from ʿAbd Allah ibn Masʿud traced back to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. Its chain contains an evident weakness, which I explained in the other book (1530).

However, the hadith has another route from Ibn Masʿud by which it is strengthened, for it contains no defect other than an unknown narrator, as I explained there (1531). It also has a mursal corroborating report, narrated by Sharīk from al-ʿAbbās ibn Dharīḥ, from ʿĀmir, who traced it back to the Prophet. Al-Baghawī recorded it in Ḥadīth ʿAlī ibn al-Jaʿd (10/107/1).