1187 — “If Allah brings you wealth that you did not ask for and toward which your soul did not eagerly incline, then accept it, for it is provision that Allah has sent to you.”

Al-Ḥākim (3/286), al-Bayhaqī (6/184), and Abū Nuʿaym in Akhbār Aṣbahān (1/228) narrated it through Sharīk, from Jāmiʿ ibn Abī Rāshid, from Zayd ibn Aslam, from his father, who said: “There was a man among the people of Syria who was held in high esteem. ʿUmar asked him, ‘Why do the people of Syria love you?’ He replied, ‘I join them in their military expeditions and support them.’ ʿUmar then offered him ten thousand, saying, ‘Take it and use it to assist you in your campaigns.’ The man said, ‘I have no need of it.’ ʿUmar said, ‘The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, once offered me wealth less than what I have offered you, and I said to him what you have said to me. He then said to me …’” He then mentioned it.

I say: This chain of transmission consists of trustworthy narrators, except for Sharīk—namely, Sharīk ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qāḍī—who had poor retention. However, the hadith is reported in the two Ṣaḥīḥs and elsewhere, from Ibn ʿUmar with the same meaning. It also has a corroborating report from ʿĀʾishah, recorded by al-Bayhaqī, and another from Abū al-Dardāʾ in Tārīkh Ibn ʿAsākir (10/426).

1188 — “When you find the imam prostrating, then prostrate; if he is bowing, then bow; and if he is standing, then stand. Do not count the prostration if you have not caught the rakʿah.”

Isḥāq ibn Manṣūr al-Marwazī recorded it in Masāʾil Aḥmad wa-Isḥāq (1/127/1, photocopy of al-Maktab): Muḥammad ibn Rāfiʿ related to us: Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī related to us, from Zāʾidah, who said: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Rufayʿ related to us, from Ibn Mughaffal al-Muzanī, who said: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said it. He then mentioned it.

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission; its narrators are trustworthy and are among the narrators of the two Ṣaḥīḥs. Al-Bayhaqī also recorded it (2/89) through the route of Shuʿbah, from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Rufayʿ, from a man, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said it. He then mentioned it.