“Farqad is weak.” Al-Hafiz said: “He is truthful and devout, but weak in hadith and prone to many errors.”

I say: For this reason, his solitary transmission of it through these several routes, with none of the reliable and precise narrators sharing it, cannot be accepted. Yet the hadith has corroborating reports by which it is strengthened, Allah willing. Some of them have already been mentioned under numbers (90 and 91); thus, taken together with them, it is good.

1605 — “Whenever he bade an army farewell, he would say: ‘I entrust to Allah your religion, your trusts, and the final deeds of your lives.’”

Al-Muhamili recorded it in al-Duʿaʾ (folio 30b): Al-Abbas ibn Muhammad narrated to us; Yahya ibn Ishaq narrated to us; Hammad ibn Salamah informed us, from Abu Jaʿfar al-Khatmi, from Muhammad ibn Kaʿb, from Abdullah ibn Yazid al-Khatmi, attributing it to the Prophet with this wording.

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. All its narrators are trustworthy and are among Muslim’s narrators, apart from Al-Abbas ibn Muhammad and Abu Jaʿfar al-Khatmi—whose name was ʿUmayr ibn Yazid—yet both are trustworthy, and their biographies appear in al-Tahdhib. Abdullah ibn Yazid al-Khatmi was a young Companion; he has two hadiths in Musnad Ahmad (4/307).

This hadith has previously appeared under number (15), from two other sources, Abu Dawud and Ibn al-Sunni. I considered it appropriate to repeat it here from this latter source because of its rarity and scarcity. Some corroborating reports for it were likewise mentioned there (14 and 16). Moreover, it is truly regrettable to see that this noble Prophetic etiquette has become something with no