“Al-Khatib mentioned them in al-Muttafiq wa al-Muftariq, from which Ibn al-Jawzi quoted; one of them is ...”

I say: He did mention them, and this is the third of them; he mentioned nothing else concerning him.

The hadith is corroborated by a report from Abu Hurayrah, attributed to the Prophet, with the same wording, except that it says, “the supplication of the oppressed” in place of “the supplication of one who is fasting.” Its documentation has preceded under no. 598. However, al-Uqayli and al-Bayhaqi, in al-Shu'ab, narrated it from Abu Hurayrah with the wording cited in the heading: “and the supplication of one who is fasting.” As al-Munawi said, its chain contains Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Baghandi, whom al-Dhahabi included in al-Du'afa' and said: “Truthful, but with some weakness.”

I say: But Ibn Masi narrated it at the end of Juz' al-Ansari (9/2), as did al-Barzali in his Selected Hadiths from It (no. 15): Abu Muslim al-Kajji narrated to us; Abu Asim al-Dahhak ibn Makhlad narrated to us, from al-Hajjaj—namely, Ibn Abi Uthman al-Sawwaf—from Yahya—that is, Ibn Abi Kathir—from Muhammad ibn Ali, from Abu Hurayrah, with the same wording.

I say: This is an authentic chain; all its narrators are trustworthy. Muhammad ibn Ali is Abu Ja'far al-Sadiq. Ibn Asakir likewise narrated it in al-Tarikh (9/211/2), through another route from Yahya ibn Abi Kathir, with the same wording. It is further corroborated by another hadith from Abu Hurayrah with the wording: “There are three whose supplications are not rejected: one who is fasting until he breaks his fast, a just ruler, and the supplication of the oppressed.” Ahmad and others narrated it, and Ibn Hibban (2407) and others authenticated it. Its chain contains an unknown Successor, as I explained in Takhrij al-Targhib (2/63).

1798 — “Take senna and sanut, for they contain a cure for every illness except al-sam.” It was asked: “O Messenger of Allah, what is al-sam?” He said: “Death.”