“I asked my father: ‘Which is preferable to you in narrating from al-Shaʿbī: al-Mughīrah or Ibn Shubrumah?’ He replied: ‘Both are trustworthy.’” Perhaps for this reason al-Ḍiyāʾ included the hadith in al-Mukhtārah through the route of al-Musnad (53/71/1–71/2). Al-Manāwī said in al-Taysīr: “Its chain of transmission is authentic,” relying on what he transmitted in al-Fayḍ from al-Mundhirī and al-Haythamī, who said: “Its narrators are those of the Ṣaḥīḥ.” Yet the flaw in this is obvious.

2274 — “Nothing that afflicts a believer’s body and causes him pain occurs except that Allah expiates some of his sins thereby.”

It was recorded by al-Ḥākim (1/347), Aḥmad (4/98), and Ibn Abī al-Dunyā in al-Kaffārāt (69/1 and 80/2), through Ṭalḥah ibn Yaḥyā, from Abū Burdah, from Muʿāwiyah, who said: “I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say,” and he then mentioned it. Al-Ḥākim said: “Authentic according to the criteria of al-Bukhārī and Muslim!” Al-Dhahabī agreed with him.

I say: Ṭalḥah ibn Yaḥyā was al-Taymī al-Madanī, and al-Bukhārī did not record anything from him. Thus, it meets Muslim’s criterion alone; moreover, his retention was subject to criticism. Al-Taqrīb states: “Truthful, but makes mistakes.” Nevertheless, the hadith is unquestionably authentic, for it has many corroborating reports in the two Ṣaḥīḥs and elsewhere, from ʿĀʾishah and others. Aḥmad (6/66) also recorded, through ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿUmayr, from her, that a man recited this verse: “Whoever commits an evil deed will be recompensed for it” (1), and said: “Shall we then be recompensed for every deed we do?”