with self-admiration, thereby corrupting him. And among My believing servants are those whose faith can be sound only through poverty ...” to the end of the hadith. It was narrated by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Rabʿī in A Section of His Hadiths (fol. 216/2), and by al-Bayhaqī in The Names and Attributes (p. 121).
I say: Its chain of transmission is weak, beset by defect after defect. First: I do not know Hishām al-Kinānī. Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in the statement of his previously quoted through al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar; one would therefore expect Ibn Ḥibbān to include him among the reliable Followers, but he did not do so. Rather, he listed among them Hishām ibn Zayd ibn Anas al-Baṣrī, who narrates from Anas and is among the transmitters relied upon by the two Shaykhs; perhaps he is the same person.
Second: Ṣadaqah ibn ʿAbd Allāh—Abū Muʿāwiyah al-Samīn—is weak.
Third: al-Ḥasan ibn Yaḥyā al-Khushanī is truthful but makes many errors, as stated in al-Taqrīb.
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I have likewise not found the chain of transmission for the hadith of Ḥudhayfah, nor have I seen it in al-Haythamī’s Majmaʿ.
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The hadith of Muʿādh, despite the weakness of its chain of transmission, is a brief corroborating report containing only the words: “Whoever shows enmity toward a devoted servant has openly challenged Allah to war.” It is included in al-Ḍaʿīfah (1850).
The hadith of Wahb ibn Munabbih was narrated by Abū Nuʿaym (4/32) through Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥakam, who said: My father narrated to me; Wahb ibn Munabbih narrated to me, saying: “I find in some of the books of the prophets, peace be upon them: Allah Most High says: I have never hesitated about anything as I hesitate over taking the soul of the believer: he dislikes death, and I dislike causing him distress, yet it is unavoidable for him.”