I say: However, the hadith has corroborating reports from the hadiths of Sahl ibn Saʿd, Ibn ʿUmar, and Abu Umamah, which I have cited in al-Taʿliq al-Raghib (1/116). Although each of them is weak on its own, when they are joined to this mursal report, they lend it strength, and it rises to the rank of good, Allah Most High willing.

1470 — “Guarantee me six matters concerning yourselves, and I will guarantee you Paradise: be truthful when you speak; fulfill your promises when you make them; discharge what you are entrusted with; guard your private parts; lower your gazes; and restrain your hands.”

Ibn Khuzaymah narrated it in Hadith ʿAli ibn Hujr (vol. 3, no. 91), as did Ibn Hibban (no. 107), al-Hakim (4/358–359), al-Kharaʾiti in al-Makarim (p. 31), Ahmad (5/323), al-Tabarani (49/1—selected excerpts from it), and al-Bayhaqi in al-Shuʿab (2/47/1), from ʿAmr, from al-Muttalib ibn ʿAbd Allah, from ʿUbadah, attributed to the Prophet.

I say: This is a good chain, were it not for the interruption between al-Muttalib and ʿUbadah. Therefore, when al-Hakim declared it authentic, al-Mundhiri criticized him in al-Targhib (3/64), saying: “Rather, al-Muttalib did not hear from ʿUbadah.” However, al-Bayhaqi mentioned for it a mursal corroborating report (2/125/2), through the route of ʿAbd al-Razzaq, from Maʿmar, from Abu Ishaq, from al-Zubayr, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Whoever guarantees me six matters, I shall guarantee him Paradise.” They asked, “What are they, O Messenger of Allah?” He said: “One who, when he speaks, tells the truth; when he promises, fulfills it; when entrusted, discharges the trust; lowers his gaze; guards his private parts; and restrains his hand—or, he said, himself.”

I say: If this al-Zubayr is Ibn al-ʿAwwam, then it is interrupted, because Abu Ishaq—ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Subayʿi—narrated from ʿAli, though it has been said that he did not hear from him. Al-Zubayr—that is, the one intended here—died earlier than ʿAli; so it is even more likely that he did not hear from him. Moreover, he practised tadlis and did not explicitly state that he heard it. Perhaps this interruption is the mursal transmission that al-Bayhaqi meant when he said: