“There is something to consider in its chain of transmission.”

I say: The reason for this is that some of the early scholars criticized ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār regarding his retention. A number of scholars declared him trustworthy, and Muslim relied on him in his Ṣaḥīḥ. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Taqrīb: “Truthful, but he makes errors; and there is inconsistency in his narrations from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr.” I say: This report is not among those, so the hadith has, at the very least, a good chain of transmission, for the rest of its narrators are reliable and precise—especially since it has been narrated through other routes.

Imām Mālik recorded it (3/140) from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, who said: “A woman came to the Messenger of Allah and said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, we lived in a house where our household was numerous and our wealth abundant; then our numbers dwindled and our wealth disappeared.’ The Messenger of Allah said: ‘Leave it; it is blameworthy.’” This has a double break in its chain of transmission, but Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: “This hadith is well established through several routes, from the hadith of Anas and others.”

Al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī then recorded the hadith in al-Mukhtārah (1/482), from Mūsā ibn Masʿūd Abū Ḥudhayfah, who narrated it to us from ʿIkrimah.

791 — “Indeed, those among you whom I love most and who will be seated nearest to me on the Day of Resurrection are those of you with the finest character. And those among you whom I dislike most and who will be seated farthest from me on the Day of Resurrection are the excessive talkers, those who are pretentious in speech, and the mutafayhiqūn.” They said, “We know the excessive talkers and those who are pretentious in speech, but who are the mutafayhiqūn?” He said: “The arrogant.”

Al-Tirmidhī (1/363) and al-Khaṭīb in al-Tārīkh (4/63) recorded it through Mubārak ibn