I say: This is a good chain of transmission, for al-Qāsim is trustworthy, though there is some deficiency in his retention. ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-ʿAlāʾ is Ibn Zabr, and he is trustworthy. He was corroborated by Ghaylān ibn Anas, whom Ibn Ḥajar deemed acceptable. It was recorded by Ibn Mājah (3856), al-Ṭaḥāwī, and al-Firyābī.
After tracing the hadith to Ibn Mājah, al-Ṭabarānī, and al-Ḥākim, al-Manāwī said: “It contains Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, concerning whom there is disagreement.”
I say: He does not appear in Ibn Mājah or al-Ḥākim; he may occur in al-Ṭabarānī’s chain. Yet this does not impair the hadith, since he is corroborated in the other reports. Thus, the hadith is established. And Allah knows best.
- “Most of those in my ummah who die, after what Allah has written, decreed, and predestined, die from the evil eye.”
It was recorded by al-Ṭayālisī in his Musnad (1760), and by al-Ṭaḥāwī from him in Mushkil al-Āthār (4/77): Ṭālib ibn Ḥabīb ibn ʿAmr ibn Sahl—Hamzah’s bedfellow—narrated to us; he said: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jābir narrated to me, from his father.