Al-Tabarani narrated it in The Virtue of the Ten Days of Dhu al-Hijjah (13/2), through Qays ibn al-Rabiʿ, from al-Agharr ibn al-Sabah, from Khalifah ibn Husayn, from ʿAli, attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.

I say: This chain is acceptable for corroborative evidence. Its narrators are trustworthy, apart from Qays ibn al-Rabiʿ, who had poor retention; thus, his hadith is good by virtue of its supporting reports. Among them is what appears in al-Muwattaʾ (1/422/246), from Ziyad ibn Abi Ziyad, the client of ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAyyash (1) ibn Abi Rabiʿah, from Talhah ibn ʿUbayd Allah ibn Kariz: the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said—then he cited it, except for the words: “To Him belongs all dominion …” He added at its beginning: “The best supplication is the supplication on the Day of ʿArafah.” This is an authentic mursal chain.

Ibn ʿAdi and al-Bayhaqi, in al-Shuʿab, connected its chain through Abu Hurayrah in a report attributed to the Prophet, with this wording, adding: “To Him belong all dominion and praise. He gives life and causes death; in His hand is all good, and He has power over all things,” as cited in al-Jamiʿ al-Kabir (1/114/1) and al-Ziyadah ʿala al-Jamiʿ al-Saghir (folio 29/1).

Another supporting report is from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, from his father, from his grandfather, attributed to the Prophet, with similar wording. It includes the addition found in al-Muwattaʾ and that found in al-Shuʿab, but not the words: “He gives life and causes death; in His hand is all good.” Al-Tirmidhi narrated it through a chain containing a weakness, which I explained in Takhrij al-Mishkat (2598). This shows that the words, “He gives life …,” are rejected, since this route alone reports them.

Another is what al-Asbahani narrated in al-Targhib (331/1—al-Madinah), from Abu Marwan: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn Muhammad narrated to us, from ʿAmr ibn Abi ʿAmr, from al-Muttalib, as a concise mursal report, with the wording: