al-Kabir (3026) and al-Awsat (5582), through Qatadah, from Abu Maʿshar, from Ibrahim al-Nakhaʿi, from Hammam, from Hudhayfah, who reported that the Prophet of Allah said it. Al-Tabarani said: “It is not narrated from Hudhayfah except through this chain of transmission.”

I say: Its chain is authentic according to Muslim’s criteria. Abu Maʿshar is Ziyad ibn Kulayb al-Kufi. This hadith is an explicit refutation of the Qadianis and of Ibn ʿArabi before them, who maintain that prophethood continues after the Prophet, and that their alleged prophet, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad al-Qadiani, is a liar and a Dajjal (impostor), one of those Dajjals.

2000 — “In the ʿajwah dates of al-ʿAliyah, taken early in the morning on an empty stomach, there is a cure for every spell or poison.”

Ahmad narrated it (6/77, 105, and 152) through Sulayman ibn Bilal, from Sharik ibn ʿAbd Allah, from Ibn Abi ʿAtiq, from ʿA’ishah, who reported that the Prophet said it.

I say: This is a good chain of transmission and meets the criteria of the two Sahihs, were it not that Sharik ibn ʿAbd Allah—who is Ibn Abi Namir—has some weakness due to his memory. Muslim also narrated it (6/124) through Ismaʿil ibn Hujr, from Sharik, with the wording: “Indeed, in the ʿajwah dates of al-ʿAliyah there is a cure—or they are an antidote—when taken early in the morning.” He did not mention taking them on an empty stomach. However, I found a corroborating report from the hadith of Saʿd ibn Abi Waqqas, attributed to the Prophet, with the wording: “Whoever eats seven ʿajwah dates grown between Madinah’s two lava fields on an empty stomach, nothing will harm him that day until evening.” He said: “And I think he said: ‘If he eats them in the evening, nothing will harm him until morning.’”