“Indeed, Allah loves many hands at a meal,” “Indeed, the food most beloved …,” and “Eat together.”

Perhaps this is why al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mundhirī, in al-Targhīb (3/121), endorsed Ibn Ḥibbān’s authentication of it and did not indicate its weakness by introducing it with the words, “It has been narrated …,” as was his customary practice and convention. And Allah knows best.

665 — “Use ithmid, for it promotes hair growth, removes eye irritants, and clears the sight.”

Al-Bukhārī recorded it in al-Tārīkh (4/2/412), and al-Ṭabarānī (1/12/1), through Abū Jaʿfar al-Nufaylī, who said: Yūnus ibn Rāshid informed us, from ʿAwn ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah, from his father, from his grandfather, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, attributed to the Prophet.

Abū Nuʿaym also transmitted it in al-Ḥilyah (3/178) through several routes from al-Firyābī, with the same narration. He said: “It is a singular hadith among the reports of Ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah: none narrated it from him except his son ʿAwn, and none narrated it from ʿAwn except Yūnus.”

I say: All the narrators in this chain are known and reliable, apart from this ʿAwn. Ibn Ḥibbān included him in al-Thiqāt (2/228) and said: “He narrates from his father, from his grandfather; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abī ʿAyyāsh narrated from him.”

I say: Yūnus ibn Rāshid also narrated from him, and al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl (Narrator Criticism and Accreditation) (3/1/386) additionally names Muḥammad ibn Mūsā. Thus, the chain is good, as al-Mundhirī said in al-Targhīb (3/115).

666 — “Treat your hair with honor.”

Ibn ʿAdī recorded it in al-Kāmil (folios 113–114).