al-Masisi, who is trustworthy, as al-Nasaʾi and others stated. Al-Ajuri also narrated it in The Strangers (1/2) through this route, and al-Tirmidhi (2/104) narrated it through another route from Hafs, with the same chain, but without the question. He said: “Good and authentic.”

It has two corroborating reports: one from Saʿd ibn Abi Waqqas and the other from ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAs, which al-Dani narrated with two authentic chains of transmission. Al-Harawi narrated it in Censure of Speculative Theology (146/1), and al-Bayhaqi in The Great Book of Asceticism (23/2), from Jabir ibn ʿAbd Allah. Al-Harawi also narrated it from Sahl ibn Saʿd, Ibn ʿUmar, and ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Sinna. He also narrated something similar from Kathir ibn ʿAbd Allah, from his father, from his grandfather.

Al-Lalakaʾi narrated it in The Sunnah (1/26/1) from Jabir and Abu Hurayrah, like the hadith of Ibn Masʿud. Its basis is found in Muslim (1/90), and Ibn ʿAdi (36/1) also narrated it from Sahl, as did al-Dulabi (1/192–193). Luwayn narrated it in A Fragment of His Hadith (2/1) from Ibn ʿUmar, without the question.

Tamam narrated it in The Benefits (148/1): Sulayman ibn Salamah al-Khabaʾiri narrated to us; al-Muʾammal ibn Saʿid al-Rahbi narrated to us, from Ibrahim ibn Abi ʿAblah, from Wathilah ibn al-Asqaʿ, attributing it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. However, al-Khabaʾiri is abandoned.

Ibn ʿAdi (234/1) narrated it from Ismaʿil ibn ʿAyyash: Ishaq ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Abi Farwah narrated to us, from Yunus ibn Sulaym, from his grandmother, from Maymunah, from ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Sinna, attributing it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. He said: “I know of no hadith from ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Sinna other than this one, and he is known only through this narration.”

Al-Tirmidhi (2/105) and Ibn ʿAdi (273/2) narrated it through Kathir ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAwf, from his father, from his grandfather, attributing it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. Ibn ʿAdi said: “Most of this Kathir’s hadiths are not corroborated.” Al-Tirmidhi, however, said: “A good and authentic hadith.”

I say: This is due to his leniency, for this Kathir is extremely weak, and his hadith contains an addition that does not occur in any of the other routes. Its wording is: