from al-Aʿmash, from Ibrāhīm al-Taymī, from al-Ḥārith ibn Suwayd, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said this.

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission according to the criteria of al-Bukhārī and Muslim. Al-Bukhārī also narrated it in abridged form; see, if you wish, Takhrīj Ḥall Mushkilat al-Faqr (114).

1487 — “The gravest falsehood is for a man to satirize another man, thereby satirizing an entire tribe; or for a man to disown his father and accuse his mother of adultery.”

Ibn Mājah narrated it (2/411), as did al-Bayhaqī (10/241), from Sulaymān al-Aʿmash, who related to them from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, from Yūsuf ibn Māhak, from ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr, from ʿĀʾishah, may Allah be pleased with her, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said this.

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. All its narrators are trustworthy and meet the criteria of al-Bukhārī and Muslim. Al-Būṣīrī likewise authenticated it in al-Zawāʾid (folio 227/1—the al-Ḥalabiyyah edition).

1488 — “Know that you do not make a single prostration to Allah except that Allah raises you by it one degree and erases from you one sin.”

Aḥmad narrated it (5/248–249–255–258), as did Ibn Naṣr in al-Ṣalāh (65/2), through several routes from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Yaʿqūb al-Ḍabbī, from Rajāʾ ibn Ḥaywah, from Abū Umāmah, who said: “I came to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and said: ‘Instruct me in a practice to which I can devote myself.’ He said:” and he mentioned it.

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission; its narrators are trustworthy narrators of Muslim.

1489 — “The best deed is prayer at its proper time, dutifulness to one’s parents, and jihad.”

Aḥmad narrated it (5/368) from Shuʿbah, who said: ʿAbd al-Malik al-Maktab related to me, saying: I heard Abū ʿAmr al-Shaybānī narrate from one of the Companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: