I say: It is necessary, as far as possible, to verify the source attributions they have mentioned.

First: What he attributed to Ibn Majah (3810) and al-Hakim (1/513–514) was in fact narrated by them only through Zakariyya ibn Manzur: “Muhammad ibn ʿUqbah ibn Abi Malik related to me, from Umm Hani”—with a similar wording. When al-Hakim declared it authentic, al-Dhahabi commented: “Zakariyya is weak, and a narrator has been omitted between Muhammad and Umm Hani.” This is how it appears in the original; the omitted narrator is not named. No one besides Ibn Hibban declared this Muhammad trustworthy, and al-Hafiz said: “His status is unknown.” Regarding Zakariyya Manzur, he said: “Weak.”

Second: Al-Tabarani’s narration in al-Awsat was recorded by him (4/436) only through Ibn Shawdhab, from Aban, from Abu Salih, from Umm Hani, with a similar wording. This Aban is most probably Ibn ʿAbbas, who was abandoned, for he was a Basran, as was the narrator from him, Ibn Shawdhab—whose name was ʿAbd Allah and who resided in Basra. If he was someone else, then I do not know him. In short, the basis for strengthening the hadith is only the first chain; the other chains, even if they add no strength to it, will not diminish it.

1317 — “The mufarridun (those who devote themselves wholly) have gone ahead.” They said: “Messenger of Allah, who are the mufarridun?” He said: “Those who ardently engage in the remembrance of Allah, the Exalted.”

It was narrated by Ahmad (2/323) and al-Hakim (1/495–496), and through his route by al-Bayhaqi in Shuʿab al-Iman (1/314, Indian edition), from Abu ʿAmir al-ʿAqadi, who said: ʿAli ibn Mubarak related to us, from Yahya ibn Abi Kathir, from ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn Yaʿqub, the client of al-Huraqah, who said: I heard Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, say: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said—and he mentioned it. Al-Hakim said: