al-Qattan said: “A report such as this cannot be authentic, for it contains Aws ibn …, who narrates rejected reports.” Abu Dawud also narrated on his authority the words: “He would not take evil omens,” and said: “Its chain of transmission is authentic.”

I say: ʿAbd al-Haqq’s authentication is the correct view. It is not an authentication of the report in and of itself, such that Ibn al-Qattan’s criticism would apply to it; rather, it is based on the detail I have mentioned. So take heed, and do not be among the heedless.

I later found a corroborating report for this hadith in the hadith of Ibn ʿAbbas, attributed to the Prophet, with the wording: “He would take favorable omens and would not take evil omens.” Its source documentation will follow shortly, Allah willing, under no. 778.

763 — “Among the people, the gravest sinners are a poet who lampoons an entire tribe, and a man who disowns his father.”

It was recorded by al-Bukhari in al-Adab al-Mufrad (126): Qutaybah narrated to us; Jarir narrated to us from al-Aʿmash, from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, from Yusuf ibn Mahak, from ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr, from ʿAʾishah, as a report attributed to the Prophet. Al-Hafiz said in al-Fath (10/443): “Its chain is good.”

I say: In my view, this falls short of the mark. Rather, it is authentic, for all its narrators are trustworthy and precise, and are among the narrators of the six canonical collections. Ibn Majah also recorded it (2/411) through Shayban, from al-Aʿmash, with the wording: “Among the gravest falsehoods is for a man to exchange satires with another man and then lampoon an entire tribe, or for a man to disown his father and thereby accuse his mother of adultery.” In al-Zawaʾid (227/1), he said: