And Abū Maʿshar—whose name was Nujayḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sindī—is weak.

The fifth is from ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, attributed to the Prophet with similar wording, in a hadith beginning: “When my Ummah does …” It is narrated by al-Faraj ibn Faḍālah, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, from him. Ibn Abī al-Dunyā recorded it (153/1), as did al-Tirmidhī (2211), who said: “Singular; we know it only through this route. Some hadith scholars have criticized al-Faraj ibn Faḍālah and declared him weak because of his memory.”

It has another route, narrated by Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Tamīmī, from ʿAbbād ibn Abī ʿAlī, from ʿAlī, with similar wording. I say: The narrators in this chain have been declared trustworthy, but I do not know whether this ʿAbbād heard from ʿAlī.

The sixth is from Abū Hurayrah, attributed to the Prophet with similar wording. It is narrated by Sulaymān ibn Sālim Abū Dāwūd, who said: Ḥassān ibn Abī Sinān narrated to us, from an unnamed man, from him. Ibn Abī al-Dunyā recorded it (153/1–2). I say: Its narrators have been declared trustworthy, apart from the man who was not named. Al-Tirmidhī (2212) also recorded it through the route of Rumayḥ al-Judhamī—who is unknown—from Abū Hurayrah, with the same wording.

The seventh is from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sābiṭ in mursal form, without mentioning the singing-girls. Ibn Abī al-Dunyā recorded it, and its chain is authentic but mursal.

The eighth and ninth are from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib and Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī in mursal form. Farqad narrates it: Qatādah told me, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib, and Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī told me the same. Aḥmad recorded it (5/259).