Al-ʿUqaylī then said: “This is narrated by Salām al-Ṭawīl, from Thābit, from Anas; and Salām has some weakness.”

I say: That is what he said, but the hadith is well known through the narration of Salām ibn Sulaymān Abū al-Mundhir al-Muzanī, who was truthful. Al-Nasāʾī (2/156) and others narrated it from him in a more complete form. It is cited in al-Mishkāh (5261) and al-Rawḍ al-Naḍīr (53). I then found for it an acceptable corroborating narration, recorded by Abū Muḥammad al-Mukhaldī in al-Fawāʾid (folio 290/1), through an authentic chain from ʿAmr ibn Hāshim, who said: “Haql ibn Ziyād narrated it to me.” This ʿAmr was al-Bayrūtī, and he was truthful but made mistakes, as al-ʿAsqalānī stated. Thus, the claim that Yaḥyā ibn ʿUthmān alone narrated it from Haql is disproved, and the authenticity of the hadith is further confirmed—all praise is due to Allah.

1810 — “Whenever he would earnestly supplicate for someone, he would say: ‘May Allah grant you the prayers of righteous people, who stand in prayer at night and fast by day, being neither sinful nor wicked.’”

It was narrated by ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd in al-Muntakhab min al-Musnad (147/2): Muslim ibn Ibrāhīm narrated to us; Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated to us; Thābit narrated to us, from Anas, attributing it to the Prophet.

I say: This is an authentic chain according to Muslim’s criteria. Al-Ḍiyāʾ also recorded it in al-Mukhtārah (folio 34/1), through the route of ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd, and said: “Some hadith scholars mentioned that Muslim narrated it from ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd through this chain, but I have not seen it in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim. Allah knows best.”

1811 — “O mother of Ḥārithah! It is not a single Garden, but many gardens, and Ḥārithah is indeed in the best of them—or, he said: in the highest Firdaws.”

Aḥmad (3/124) and Ibn Saʿd (3/510–511) narrated it: Yazīd ibn