- through the route of Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīrah: Thābit related it to us with only the wording attributed to the Prophet, in a similar form. This is also reported by Aḥmad (4/332–333; 6/15).
It has a corroborating narration from the hadith of Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ, attributed to the Prophet, with similar wording. Al-Ṭayālisī recorded it (211) with an authentic chain of transmission. It also has another, abbreviated corroborating narration, worded as follows:
“Marvelous is the affair of the believer: Allah decreals nothing for him except that it is good for him.”
148 – “Marvelous is the affair of the believer: Allah decreals nothing for him except that it is good for him.”
It was narrated by ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad in his father’s Musnad (5/24), Abū al-Faḍl al-Tamīmī in the “Collection of Abū Mus hir …” (61/1), and Abū Yaʿlā (200/2), from Anas ibn Mālik, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said … and he mentioned the hadith.
I say: Its chain of transmission is authentic; all its narrators are trustworthy except for this Thaʿlabah, whom Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned