“Rāshid ibn ʿAbd Rabbih was not mentioned by Ibn Abī Ḥātim in his book.”

I say: The same is true of his son, al-Ḥasan ibn Rāshid. Nor have I found anyone else who mentioned either of them. Nevertheless, Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī authenticated it in Asnā al-Maṭālib fī Ṣilat al-Aqārib (f. 25/1), perhaps on account of the corroborating reports that follow.

Concerning this hadith, al-Haythamī said in Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid (10/229): “Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Awsaṭ, and among its narrators are some whom I do not know.” Al-Suyūṭī included the hadith in al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr, attributing it to Abū Muḥammad al-Ibrāhīmī in Kitāb al-Ṣalāh and to Ibn al-Najjār, from Ibn ʿUmar, without adding anything further. This is an egregious shortcoming, as will become clear from our documentation here.

Moreover, in my view the hadith is good, or authentic, for it has corroborating reports that strengthen it. I shall mention those of them that I have been able to find:

First: From Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ, in a report attributed to the Prophet: “You must despair of what people possess ...” the hadith. It contains one passage for which I could find no corroborating report; because of it, I included the hadith in al-Ḍaʿīfah, no. 3881, where I documented its chains.

Second: From Saʿd ibn ʿUmārah, the brother of Saʿd ibn Bakr—who had Companionship with the Prophet—that a man said to him, “Give me personal counsel; may Allah have mercy on you.” He said: “When you rise to pray, perform your minor ablution thoroughly, for there is no valid prayer for one who has no minor ablution, and no faith for one who has no prayer.” He then said: “When you pray, pray the prayer of one bidding farewell. Refrain from seeking too many things, for that is present poverty. Despair of what people possess, for that is true wealth; and consider whatever word or deed for which you would have to apologize, and avoid it.”