—all trustworthy narrators whose reports are found in the two Ṣaḥīḥs. It therefore deserves to be graded authentic. Perhaps he did not do so because of al-Bukhārī’s aforementioned criticism of it; but this does not appear to me to be a strong criticism. Allah knows best. It was perhaps for this reason that Ibn al-Qayyim said in Iʿlām al-Muwaqqiʿīn: “A good hadith.”

Part of it is also narrated through another route from ʿĀʾishah, with the wording: “Whenever he discovered that one of his household had told a lie, he would continue to turn away from him until he repented to Allah.” It was narrated by al-ʿUqaylī in the introduction to his book al-Ḍuʿafāʾ (p. 2), and from him by Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr in al-Tamhīd (1/69): Aḥmad ibn Zukayr narrated to us: Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin narrated to us: Yaḥyā ibn Qaʿnab said: Ḥammād ibn Zayd narrated to us, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, as a report attributed to the Prophet. He then narrated it (p. 467): al-Ḥasan ibn [Ḥabīb] narrated to us: Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Muʾmin narrated to us through the same chain. He cited it in the biography of Yaḥyā ibn Maslamah ibn Qaʿnab and said: “No one corroborates him in this hadith, and he has narrated objectionable reports.” In al-Jāmiʿ, it was attributed to Aḥmad and al-Ḥākim, on the authority of ʿĀʾishah, but I have not found it in either of their works at present. Al-Manāwī mentioned that al-Ḥākim narrated it through this route of Ibn Qaʿnab.

2053 — “The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, was fair-skinned, as though cast from silver, and had wavy hair.”

It was narrated by al-Tirmidhī in al-Shamāʾil (p. 29) and al-Bayhaqī in al-Dalāʾil (1/179), from Ṣāliḥ ibn Abī al-Akhḍar, from Ibn Shihāb, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah, as a report attributed to the Prophet with this wording.