“Trustworthy; he relates rejected reports from his father.” However, in al-Mīzān, he stated that the problematic nature of those reports came from his father.

Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Taqrīb: “Truthful, but makes mistakes.” Thus, the hadith is, at the very least, good.

1380 — “When strife arises among the Muslims, take a wooden sword.”

It was recorded by al-Tirmidhī (no. 2204), Ibn Mājah (3960)—whose wording is cited here—Aḥmad (5/96 and 6/393), and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Kabīr (1/44), through three routes from Adīsah bint Ahbān, who said: “When ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib came here—to Basra—he entered upon my father and said: ‘O Abū Muslim, will you not assist me against these people?’ He replied: ‘Certainly.’ He then called for a slave girl and said: ‘Girl, bring out my sword.’ She brought it out, and he drew it from its sheath about a span, and it was made of wood. He said: ‘Indeed, my beloved and your cousin—the Prophet—charged me: “When there is ...”’—then he cited the hadith. ‘If you wish, I will go out with you.’ He replied: ‘I have no need of you or of your sword.’”

Al-Tirmidhī said: “A good, singular hadith; we know it only through the hadith of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd.”

I say: He is trustworthy, and two others also followed him, as previously indicated: ʿAbd al-Kabīr ibn al-Ḥakam al-Ghifārī and Abū ʿAmr al-Qasmalī. To my knowledge, no one has declared Adīsah trustworthy; yet she was a Successor and the daughter of a Companion, and three narrators related from her, as mentioned above. Thus, one is reassured of the soundness of her hadith. It is therefore no wonder that al-Tirmidhī graded it good. Allah knows best.

It is also supported by the hadith of Sahl ibn Abī al-Ṣalt, who said: “I heard al-Ḥasan say:”