for both are weak. He deemed it good only because it has come through other routes. Ahmad transmitted it (4/148) through Muʿadh ibn Rifaʿah, who said: Ali ibn Yazid narrated it to me, with the same report.
He then transmitted it (4/158) through Ibn Ayyash, from Usayd ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Khathʿami, from Furwah ibn Mujahid al-Lakhmi, who said: “I met the Messenger of Allah, and he said to me: ‘O Uqbah ibn Amir, maintain ties with whoever cuts you off, give to whoever deprives you, and pardon whoever wrongs you.’”
- “O Uqbah ibn Amir, maintain ties with whoever cuts you off, give to whoever deprives you, and pardon whoever wrongs you.”
He said: Then I came to the Messenger of Allah, and he said to me: “O Uqbah ibn Amir, control…”—the hadith. Then I met the Messenger of Allah, and he said to me: “O Uqbah ibn Amir, shall I not teach you surahs the like of which have not been revealed in the Torah, the Psalms, the Gospel, or the Quran? No night should come upon you without your reciting them in it: ‘Say: He is Allah, the One’; ‘Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of daybreak’; and ‘Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind.’”
Uqbah said: “Not a night passed without my reciting them, and it is only right that I should not abandon them, since the Messenger of Allah commanded me to recite them.” Whenever Furwah ibn Mujahid narrated this hadith, he would say: “Indeed, how many there are who do not control their tongues, do not weep over their sins, or whose homes do not suffice them.”
I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. All its narrators are known and trustworthy, except Furwah ibn Mujahid. Ibn Hibban mentioned him in al-Thiqat, a number of narrators transmitted from him, and al-Bukhari said: “They had no doubt that he was one of the Abdal, the ‘Substitutes.’” Al-Tabarani also transmitted it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabir (1/163/2), and al-Diyaʾ, through him, in