1466 — “Feed people food and spread greetings of peace, and you will inherit the Gardens.”

Al-Maqdisī narrated it in al-Mukhtārah (135/1), from al-Ṭabarānī: Muḥammad ibn Muʿādh al-Ḥalabī narrated to us; Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl narrated to us; al-Rabīʿ ibn Muslim narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn Ziyād, who said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith would pass by us and say this, attributing it to the Prophet.

I say: This is a chain of transmission whose narrators are trustworthy and among the narrators of Muslim, apart from Muḥammad ibn Muʿādh al-Ḥalabī. Apparently, he is the Damascene whose biography al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir recorded in The History of Damascus (16/4/2–5/1), through reports from a number of trustworthy authorities. He noted that he was among those qualified to issue legal opinions in Damascus, and that Abū Ḥātim said: “I do not know him.” He died in 215 AH. The hadith also has a corroborating report from Abū Hurayrah, attributed to the Prophet with the same wording, containing an addition for which reason I cited it in the other book (1324).

1467 — “The children of the Muslims are upon a mountain in Paradise, and Abraham and Sarah care for them until they hand them over to their fathers on the Day of Resurrection.”

Abū Nuʿaym narrated it in Akhbār Iṣbahān (2/263), as did al-Daylamī (1/1/118), Ibn ʿAsākir (19/219/2), and al-Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbd al-Ghanī in his documentation of the hadith (73/40/1), from Muʾammal ibn Ismāʿīl, who narrated to us from Sufyān al-Thawrī, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Iṣbahānī, from Abū Ḥāzim, from Abū Hurayrah, attributed to the Prophet.

I say: This is a chain of transmission whose narrators are trustworthy and among the narrators of al-Bukhārī and Muslim, apart from Muʾammal ibn Ismāʿīl, who was truthful but poor in retention, as stated in al-Taqrīb. Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān contradicted him, narrating it from Sufyān as a report attributed to the Companion Abū Hurayrah. Ibn ʿAsākir narrated it through the route of Musaddad ibn Musarhad: Yaḥyā narrated to us in this manner. It is therefore