“Of all acts of obedience, the one whose reward comes most swiftly is maintaining ties of kinship. A household may indeed be wicked, yet its wealth grows and its numbers increase when its members maintain their ties of kinship. And of all acts of disobedience, those whose punishment comes most swiftly are transgression and treachery. A perjurious oath depletes wealth, weighs heavily upon the womb, and leaves homes desolate.”

Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat (1/155/2, from Zawa'id al-Mu'jamayn): Ahmad—that is, Ibn 'Uqal—narrated to us; Abu Ja'far—that is, al-Nufayli—narrated to us; Abu al-Dahma al-Basri, an honest shaykh, narrated to us from Muhammad ibn 'Amr, from Abu Salamah, from Abu Hurayrah. He said: “No one narrated it from Muhammad ibn 'Amr except Abu al-Dahma; al-Nufayli alone narrated it from him.”

I say: Al-Nufayli is trustworthy, but as for his shaykh, Abu al-Dahma, although he was declared trustworthy in this chain, al-Dhahabi said: “Ibn Hibban said: It is not permissible to use him as evidence.” Al-Dhahabi then cited this hadith in his biographical notice, through al-Nufayli from him. As for al-Hafiz, he said in al-Taqrib: “He is acceptable.”

Al-Haythami said in al-Majma' (8/152): “Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Awsat, and its chain contains Abu al-Dahma al-Basri, who is very weak.” Elsewhere (8/180), he said: “Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Awsat, and its chain contains Abu al-Dahma al-Basri. Al-Nufayli declared him trustworthy, whereas Ibn Hibban declared him weak.”

I say: However, it has a corroborating report in the hadith of Abu Bakrah, mentioned previously under hadith 918. In sum, the hadith is authentic and established on account of all these chains and corroborating reports. Its final clause also has another corroborating report in the hadith of Wathilah, with the wording: