Al-Ḥākim (4/284) narrated it through Muḥammad ibn ʿAjlān, from al-Qaʿqāʿ ibn Ḥakīm, from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said it. Al-Ḥākim said: “It is authentic according to the criteria of Muslim,” and al-Dhahabī concurred.

I say: Rather, it is only good, because Ibn ʿAjlān has slight weakness; Muslim narrated from him only in corroborating reports. Al-hadʾah means stillness and cessation of movement—that is, after people have become still, no longer walking about and coming and going in the roads.

1753 — “Beware of narrating excessively from me. Whoever speaks concerning me, let him say nothing but what is true. Whoever attributes to me something I did not say, let him take his seat in the Fire.”

Imām Aḥmad (5/297) narrated it: Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd related to us; Muḥammad—meaning Ibn Isḥāq—related to us; Ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik related to me, from Abū Qatādah, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say it.

I say: This is a good chain of transmission, and its narrators are trustworthy. Ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik was named Maʿbad; Ibn Isḥāq likewise named him thus in a narration transmitted from him by a group. It was also narrated by al-Dārimī (1/77), Ibn Mājah (35), al-Ṭaḥāwī in Mushkil al-Āthār (1/172), and al-Ḥākim (1/111). ʿUqayl ibn Khālid corroborated him, narrating it from Maʿbad ibn Kaʿb in the same manner; al-Ṭaḥāwī narrated it from him through a weak chain. Kaʿb ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Kaʿb ibn Mālik also corroborated him, narrating it from his father in the same manner.