something he had introduced on his own. For it was their disagreement over their prophets that destroyed those before you.” He said: Then each of us rose, not reciting according to the recitation of the other.

In Ibn Hibban’s version: “He then instructed ʿAli, saying, ‘The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, commands you that every one of you recite as he was taught...’” Its chain of transmission is good.

It has another supporting narration from the hadith of ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, from his father, from his grandfather, with a similar report attributed to the Prophet. It includes: “The Quran was not revealed so that you may set one part of it against another; rather, its parts confirm one another. So act upon what you know of it, and believe in what is unclear to you.” Ibn Saʿd recorded it in The Classes (4/192) with a good chain of transmission. In The Supplement to the Smaller Compendium (32/19), al-Suyuti attributed it to al-Tabarani in The Major Compendium. He did not do so in The Scattered Pearls (2/6), however; there he attributed it to Ibn Saʿd, Ibn al-Ḍurays in his work on its virtues, and Ibn Mardawayh, from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb ... with a similar report.

1523 — “O uncle, frequently supplicate for well-being.”

Al-Tabarani (no. 11908), al-Hakim (1/529), and al-Ḍiyaʾ in The Selected (66/86/1) recorded it through the route of Hilal ibn Khabbab, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbas: the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said this to his uncle al-ʿAbbas. Al-Hakim said: “It is authentic according to the standards of al-Bukhari, and it has also been narrated with another wording.” Al-Dhahabi concurred.

Al-Ḍiyaʾ said immediately afterward: “I say: Hilal ibn Khabbab was declared trustworthy by Imam Ahmad, Yahya ibn Maʿin, and others. Ibrahim ibn al-Junayd said: ‘I asked Yahya ibn Maʿin about Hilal ibn Khabbab and said, “Yahya al-Qaṭṭan...’