“I heard my father say: ‘This is an error. Rather, it is al-Shaʿbi, from ʿAmir ibn Shahr, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.’”

Sharik also differed, saying: From Ismaʿil, from ʿAtaʾ, from ʿAmir ibn Shahr. Ahmad recorded it (4/260).

I say: He substituted ʿAtaʾ for al-Shaʿbi, which was an error on the part of Sharik ibn ʿAbd Allah, the judge, for he had a poor memory. In sum, the hadith is soundly established through the narrations of Mujalid ibn Saʿid and Ismaʿil ibn Abi Khalid, from al-Shaʿbi, from ʿAmir ibn Shahr. He was a well-known Companion and the first to oppose al-Aswad the liar in Yemen.

1578 — “When the son of Adam is afflicted by cold, he says, ‘Ouch!’ and when he is afflicted by heat, he says, ‘Ouch!’”

Ahmad recorded it (6/410) through Yuhannas, from Khawla bint Qays ibn Qahd al-Ansariyyah, of the Banu al-Najjar. She said: “One day, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, came to us... I presented him with a cooking pot containing a loaf of bread or a thick soup. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, put his hand into the pot to eat, and his fingers were burned. He said, ‘Ouch!’ Then he said”—and he mentioned the above.

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. All its narrators are trustworthy and are among Muslim’s narrators.

Hass is an expression uttered upon sudden pain. One may say, “He was struck, but he did not say, ‘Ouch!’” It may also be nunated.

1579 — “The best act of worship is supplication.”

It is reported from Ibn ʿAbbas, through two routes from him: