I say: This is a weak mursal chain of transmission. Yazīd ibn Marthad was a trustworthy Successor, while al-Waḍīn ibn ʿAṭāʾ had some weakness. The remaining narrators are trustworthy. Marwān was Ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭāṭarī. Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf appears to have been Ibn Maymūn al-Bāhilī al-Balkhī, and he was truthful.

The hadith has a corroborating report from the hadith of Abū Dharr, attributed to the Prophet, with the wording: “Just as grapes are not harvested from thorns, so the wicked do not occupy the abodes of the righteous. They are two paths; whichever one you take will lead you to it.” Abū Nuʿaym recorded it in Akhbār Iṣbahān (1/112), and Ibn ʿAsākir in al-Tārīkh (19/96/2), through Furāt ibn Salmān, who said: Abū al-Muhājir al-Dimashqī informed us, from Abū Dharr al-Ghifārī, attributing it to the Prophet.

Ibn ʿAsākir cited it in the biography of this Abū al-Muhājir, mentioning nothing there besides this hadith. Perhaps he is the one mentioned in Kunyā Tārīkh al-Bukhārī (73/685): “Abū al-Muhājir, a client of Banū Kilāb: I said to Ibn ʿAbbās, ‘Just as nothing benefits alongside associating partners with Allah, does anything harm alongside sincerity?’ ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ṣafwān narrated from him.” Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in al-Thiqāt (5/565), through the narration of this Ibn Ṣafwān from him. The rest of the narrators have been declared reliable. Thus, taken together through the two chains, the hadith is good. And Allah knows best.

2047 — “Just as the reward is multiplied for us, so too is affliction multiplied for us.”

Ibn Saʿd recorded it in al-Ṭabaqāt (8/314): Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar informed us; he said: Maʿmar and Mālik narrated to me, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah, who said: