Abū Nuʿaym in his Mustakhraj (supplementary collection) on Sahih Muslim (1/3/1), who said: “A good hadith, among the authentic hadiths transmitted by the people of Syria.” Al-Khaṭīb likewise transmitted its first part in The Jurist and the Student of Jurisprudence (fol. 106/1).

938 — “Shall I not inform you of the one for whom the Fire is forbidden—or the one to whom the Fire is forbidden? Every approachable, gentle, easygoing person.”

Al-Tirmidhī (2/80), Ibn Ḥibbān (1096, 1097), al-Kharāʾiṭī in Noble Character (11, 23), Aḥmad (1/415), al-Ṭabarānī in The Major Dictionary (3/83/2), Abū al-Qāsim ibn Abī al-Qaʿnab in The Hadith of al-Qāsim ibn al-Ashyab (8/1), Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī in The Forty Hadiths (196/1), and al-Baghawī in The Explanation of the Sunnah (94/1) narrated it through several routes from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr al-Awdī, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said—and he then mentioned it.

Al-Tirmidhī said: “A good, singular hadith.” This is what he said, but this al-Awdī was deemed trustworthy by no one besides Ibn Ḥibbān, and no one other than Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah narrated from him; thus, he is counted among the unknown narrators.

Some weak narrators also related it from Hishām through another chain. Ibn Abī Ḥātim said in The Defects (2/108): “I asked my father and Abū Zurʿah about a hadith narrated by Muṣʿab ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Zubayrī, from his father, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, from Jābir, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.” I say: He then cited it. They said: “This is