(3 / 1 / 170), but did not offer either criticism or accreditation of him. It has been said that Ibn Ḥibbān listed him among the reliable narrators.

Hushaym practised tadlīs and transmitted it using the ambiguous “from” formula. This demonstrates al-Mundhirī’s leniency (4 / 155), even though al-Haythamī followed him (4 / 306), for they said: “Al-Bazzār narrated it, and its chain of transmission is good!” Strangely, al-Haythamī said elsewhere, as al-Manāwī quoted from him: “It contains ʿUthmān ibn Makhlad, and I have not found anyone who mentioned him!” In sum, the hadith is strong in view of these supporting reports, and it is further strengthened by the supporting reports that follow; thus, it is an authentic hadith. And Allah’s bounty is greater.

1822 — “Fever is a furnace from Hell; whatever of it afflicts the believer is his share of the Fire.”

Aḥmad narrated it (5 / 252 and 264), as did al-Ṭaḥāwī in al-Mushkil (3 / 68), Ibn Abī al-Dunyā in al-Maraḍ wa-al-Kaffārāt (162 / 2), Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī in al-Fawāʾid (91 / 1), and Ibn ʿAsākir (19 / 39 / 2), through Muḥammad ibn Muṭarrif, from Abū al-Ḥuṣayn, from Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Ashʿarī, from Abū Umāmah, in a report ascribed to the Prophet.

I say: This is a weak chain of transmission. Its narrators are reliable, apart from Abū al-Ḥuṣayn, who was Palestinian. Al-Dhahabī said: “Abū Ghassān Muḥammad ibn Muṭarrif was alone in narrating from him.” For this reason, al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar declared him unknown. Thus, al-Mundhirī’s statement (4 / 155):