and its narrators are trustworthy.

Note: Al-Suyuti included the hadith in Zawa'id al-Jami' al-Saghir with the wording: “Whenever a servant’s feet become dusty in the cause of Allah, Allah forbids him to the Fire.” He said: “It was narrated by the Four from Malik ibn Abd Allah al-Khath'ami.” I say: This is a remarkable error, for the Four did not transmit anything at all from this Malik, nor is he among the narrators of al-Tahdhib. For this reason, in his biographical notice on him in al-Isabah, al-Hafiz attributed it only to Abu Dawud al-Tayalisi, Ahmad, al-Tabarani, and al-Baghawi.

Benefit: Regarding Qalamiyyah, Mu'jam al-Buldan states: “Its first and second letters have fathah, its mim is quiescent, and its ya' is light: a vast district at the edge of the Byzantine lands, near Tarsus.” I say: In al-Musnad, it appears as Qalmatā, while in Majma' al-Zawa'id (5/285) it appears as Mulimmah. What I have established is perhaps the correct reading.

2220 — “A household in which there is vinegar is not devoid of condiment.”

Al-Tirmidhi (1842), Abu Nu'aym in al-Hilyah (8/312–313), and al-Daylami (4/34) narrated it through Thabit ibn Abi Safiyyah, Abu Hamzah al-Thumali, from al-Sha'bi, from Umm Hani', who said: “The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, entered upon me and said, ‘O Umm Hani', do you have anything?’ She replied, ‘No, except some dry broken pieces of bread and vinegar.’ He then said it.” Abu Nu'aym said: “It is singular among Abu Hamzah’s reports.” I say: He is weak, as stated in al-Taqrib, and al-Dhahabi said in al-Du'afa':