them; it commanded them to be miserly, and they were miserly; and it commanded them to commit immorality, and they did so.”

Aḥmad narrated it (2/159), and its chain of transmission is authentic. Al-Dārimī (2/240) narrated its opening portion with the wording: “Beware of injustice, for injustice will be darknesses on the Day of Resurrection.” Abū Dāwūd (1/268) and al-Ḥākim (1/415) narrated the portion, “Beware of avarice ...” Al-Ḥākim said: “Its chain of transmission is authentic,” and al-Dhahabī agreed with him. Aḥmad (2/195) also narrated it like al-Dārimī’s version, together with the wording immediately preceding it.

It has another route from Ibn ʿAmr in this complete form. Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿArafah said in his collection (no. 91—in my copy): “ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Abū Ḥafṣ al-Abbār informed us, from Muḥammad ibn Juḥādah, from Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muzanī, from him, with this wording.”

I say: Its chain of transmission is authentic. Its narrators are trustworthy and are among the narrators used by al-Bukhārī and Muslim, apart from this al-Abbār, who is trustworthy.

It also has a corroborating report, in this complete form, from the hadith of Abū Hurayrah, attributed to the Prophet with the same wording. Aḥmad (2/331) narrated it through two routes from Saʿīd ibn Abī Saʿīd, from him.

I say: One of them has an authentic chain of transmission according to the criteria of al-Bukhārī and Muslim, while the other is good. Ibn Ḥibbān (1566) also narrated the latter.

859 — “In the black seed there is a cure for every disease except death.”

Al-Bukhārī (10/118–119), Muslim (7/25), and Ibn Mājah (2/342) narrated it.