943 — “If this worldly life were worth, in the sight of Allah, as much as the wing of a mosquito, He would not give a disbeliever even a drink of water from it.”

Al-Tirmidhī (2/52), al-ʿUqaylī in al-Ḍuʿafāʾ (250), and Abū Nuʿaym in al-Ḥilyah (3/3/253) narrated it through ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Sulaymān, from Abū Ḥāzim, from Sahl ibn Saʿd, who reported that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said the above. Al-Tirmidhī said: “This hadith is authentic and singular through this route.”

This is what he said, but it is an instance of his leniency. Al-ʿUqaylī said: “ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ibn Sulaymān, the brother of Fulayḥ—Ibn Maʿīn said: ‘He is of no account.’ He was followed by Zakariyyā ibn Manẓūr, who is inferior to him.” Ibn ʿAdī said in al-Kāmil (249/1), after narrating it through the first route: “He is among those whose hadith may be recorded.”

I say: Both are weak, as al-Ḥāfiẓ stated in al-Taqrīb. Al-Ḥākim also narrated it (4/306) through the other route and said: