1329 — “When one of you has performed the Friday prayer, let him not pray anything after it until he has spoken or left.”

Al-Daylami narrated it (1/1/64), through al-Tabarani: Ahmad ibn Rushdayn narrated to us: Khalid ibn Abd al-Salam narrated to us: al-Fadl ibn al-Mukhtar narrated to us, from Abd Allah ibn Mawhib, from Ismah ibn Malik al-Khatmi, attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. Al-Hafiz made no comment on it in Mukhtasar al-Daylami. Its chain of transmission is very weak. Regarding al-Fadl ibn al-Mukhtar, al-Haythami said (2/195), “He is very weak.” He attributed it to al-Tabarani’s al-Mu‘jam al-Kabir.

I say: Ahmad ibn Rushdayn is Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hajjaj ibn Rushdayn ibn Sa‘d, Abu Ja‘far al-Misri. Ibn ‘Adi said, “They accused him of lying, and a number of things were found objectionable in his case.”

I say: However, the hadith is authentic. Muslim narrated it in his Sahih (882), as did Ibn Khuzaymah (1/194/1) and others, from Mu‘awiyah ibn Abi Sufyan, may Allah be pleased with him, attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. I have documented it in Sahih Abi Dawud (1034).

1330 — “When one of you sneezes, the person sitting with him should invoke Allah’s mercy for him. If he sneezes more than three times, then he has a cold, and no invocation should be made for him after that.”

Ibn al-Sunni narrated it in Amal al-Yawm wa al-Laylah (251), and Ibn ‘Asakir in Tarikh Dimashq (2/391/2), from Sulayman ibn Sayf: Muhammad ibn Sulayman ibn Abi Dawud narrated to us: my father informed us, from al-Zuhri, from Sa‘id ibn al-Musayyib, from Abu Hurayrah, attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.

I say: All the narrators in this chain are trustworthy except Sulayman ibn Abi Dawud, the Harrani known as Bawmah. Al-Dhahabi said, “Abu Hatim deemed him weak; al-Bukhari said, ‘His hadith is rejected’; and Ibn Hibban said, ‘He is not used as evidence.’”