“I seek refuge in Allah’s might and power from the evil of what I feel.” He said: “I said this, and Allah removed what I had been suffering.”

Through Mālik, it was also recorded by Abū Dāwūd (3891), al-Tirmidhī (2/9), and al-Ḥākim (1/343), all of them from him through this chain. Al-Tirmidhī said: “A good, authentic hadith.” Al-Ḥākim said: “Its chain of transmission is authentic. The two did not record it with this wording; rather, Muslim recorded it through al-Jurayrī, from Yazīd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Shikhkhīr, from ʿUthmān ibn Abī al-ʿĀṣ, with different wording.”

1416 — “When a slave is sincere to his master and worships his Lord well, he will have his reward twice over.”

It was recorded by al-Bukhārī (5/134), Muslim (5/94), who did not give its wording, and Aḥmad (2/18, 20, 102, and 142), through the route of ʿUbayd Allāh, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. Usāmah corroborated him in Muslim; Mālik did likewise, as will follow, with the wording: “When a slave is sincere to his master.” The hadith also has a corroborating report from Abū Mūsā and others; see “the one who serves kings well” and “when the slave fulfills [his duty].”

1417 — “People must have a ʿarīf (community representative), and the ʿarīf is in the Fire.”

Abū al-Shaykh recorded it, in suspended form, in Ṭabaqāt al-Aṣbahāniyyīn (p. 25), and Abū Nuʿaym provided its connected chain in Akhbār Aṣbahān (2/148), from al-ʿAlāʾ ibn Abī al-ʿAlāʾ—the caretaker of the congregational mosque—who said: My grandfather Mirdās narrated to me, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

Abū al-Shaykh mentioned this Mirdās al-Aṣbahānī in his biography, adding nothing beyond his description as “the caretaker of the congregational mosque.” He is therefore unknown, and I have not found him mentioned in the biographical works on narrators. However, Abū Yaʿlā recorded it in his Musnad (1/410) through another route, from ʿĪsā ibn Maymūn, who said: Yazīd al-Raqāshī informed us, from Anas, with it. Yazīd is weak.