—who mentioned a story and said: “I heard my father say: ‘I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say…’” He then cited it. Abu Nu'aym said: “Abu Bakr’s name was Abdullah ibn Hafs ibn Umar ibn Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas.”
I say: He is trustworthy and among the narrators of the two Shaykhs. As for Ibrahim ibn al-Muhajir al-Bajali, scholars differed concerning him. Ahmad said: “There is no harm in him,” while Yahya al-Qattan said: “He was not strong.” Al-Taqrib states: “Truthful, but weak in retention.”
I say: Thus, his hadith is good, Allah willing.
- “In times of tribulation, the best of people is a man holding his horse by its reins—or, he said, by its halter—pursuing Allah’s enemies, frightening them as they frighten him; or a man who withdraws into the desert, fulfilling the right of Allah incumbent upon him.”
Al-Hakim narrated it (4/446) through Abd al-Razzaq, who said: Ma'mar informed us, from Abdullah ibn Tawus, from his father, from Ibn Abbas, attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. He said: “Authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs,” and al-Dhahabi concurred. It is as they both said, provided that the one who narrated it from Abd al-Razzaq—namely, Ishaq ibn Ibrahim al-Dabari—was not alone in narrating it.