“Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it, but I do not know ʿAttāb ibn ʿĀmir. Ibn Lahīʿah’s hadith is good, although there is some weakness in him.”

I say: The hadith is therefore good by virtue of its two chains combined. And Allah knows best.

1854 — “Intoxicants are the mother of all evils. Whoever drinks them, Allah will not accept any prayer from him for forty days; and if he dies while they remain in his stomach, he dies a death of the Age of Ignorance.”

Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Awsaṭ (3810), al-Wāḥidī in al-Wasīṭ (1/224), and al-Quḍāʿī—only its first sentence—in (6/2), through al-Ḥakam ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Nuʿaym, from al-Walīd ibn ʿUbādah, who said: I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr say it, attributing it to the Prophet. One of the hadith scholars wrote in the margin of al-Quḍāʿī’s work—I believe it was Ibn al-Muḥibb al-Maqdisī—“Good.” And it is as he said.

Al-Haythamī said in Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid (5/72): “Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Awsaṭ through his shaykh, Shabāb ibn Ṣāliḥ, whom I do not know. The rest of its narrators are trustworthy, though criticism of one of them has been mentioned that is not detrimental.” He was referring to al-Ḥakam ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.

1855 — “Leave the people alone, so that they may benefit from one another. When a man seeks the counsel of his brother, let him give him sincere counsel.”

Aḥmad narrated it (4/259) through Abū ʿAwānah, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, from Ḥakīm ibn Abī Yazīd, from his father, from someone who heard the Prophet say this. He then cited it.

I say: This is a weak chain of transmission. Ḥakīm ibn Abī Yazīd is unknown; no one besides Ibn Ḥibbān declared him trustworthy, and they mention no narrator from him other than ʿAṭāʾ. ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib was trustworthy, but he became confused in his later years, and he was inconsistent in its chain of transmission—