“No one corroborates him in his hadith.” He then cited another hadith of his. As for this hadith, it has many supporting reports, some of which have already been documented under no. (526). Bahshal mentioned him in his biographical entry, but did not cite any narrator criticism or accreditation concerning him. I therefore included it, particularly since I have not seen anyone mention it as a narration from Ibn ʿAbbās. And Allah knows best.

2005 — “There are people who recite the Quran, but it does not pass beyond their collarbones. They depart from Islam as an arrow passes through its quarry.”

Al-Dārimī (1/68–69) and Bahshal, in History of Wāsiṭ (p. 198, edited by ʿAwwād), narrated it through two routes from ʿUmar ibn Yaḥyā ibn ʿAmr ibn Salamah al-Hamdānī, who said: My father narrated to me, who said: My father narrated to me: “We used to sit at the door of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd before the dawn prayer. When he came out, we would walk with him to the mosque. Then Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī came to us and asked, ‘Has Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān come out to you yet?’ We replied, ‘No.’ So he sat with us until he came out. When he came out, we all rose and went to him. Abū Mūsā said to him, ‘O Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, I have just seen something in the mosque which I found objectionable, though—praise be to Allah—I saw nothing but good.’ He asked, ‘What was it?’ He said, ‘If you live, you will see it. I saw some people in the mosque sitting in circles, waiting for the prayer. In every circle was a man, and they had pebbles in their hands. He would say, “Say: Allah is Most Great, one hundred times,” and they would say it one hundred times. Then he would say, “Say: There is no god but Allah, one hundred times,” and they would say it one hundred times. Then he would say, “Glorify Allah one hundred times,” and they would glorify Him one hundred times.’ He asked, ‘And what did you say to them?’ He replied, ‘I did not say anything to them, awaiting your opinion.’ He said, ‘Why did you not command them to count their sins, and guarantee them that none of their good deeds would be lost?’

Then he went on, and we went with him, until he came to one of those circles. He stood over them and said, ‘What is this that I see you doing?’ They replied, ‘O Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, these are pebbles with which we count our declarations of Allah’s greatness, His oneness, and His transcendence.’ He said, ‘Then count your sins, for I guarantee that no…’