al-Tahdhīb, apart from Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Muḥāribī. Ibn Abī Ḥātim said (2/1/185), reporting from his father: “His hadith is sound.” As for Mālik ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Tujībī, Ibn Abī Ḥātim said (4/1/214): “I heard from him in Egypt, and he was truthful.” He was corroborated, as will follow. Al-Haythamī said of the hadith (2/302): “Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Kabīr, and its narrators are trustworthy.” Al-Manāwī transmitted from him that he said: “As for Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Bukhārī [thus written], the Syrian, I have not found anyone who mentioned him; the rest of its narrators are trustworthy!” That is what he said. Yet we have identified him—praise be to Allah—as we have explained. The hadith was also recorded by Ibn Abī al-Dunyā in al-Maraḍ wa-al-Kaffārāt (folio 195/2), and by al-Ṭabarānī in al-Kabīr (8/115/7485), through two other chains from Khālid ibn Yazīd, with the same chain.

2278 — “No soul dies while testifying that there is no deity but Allah and that I am the Messenger of Allah, with this testimony returning to a heart certain of it, except that Allah forgives it.”

It was recorded by Ibn Mājah (2/419), Ibn Ḥibbān (5), Aḥmad (5/229), and al-Ḥumaydī (370), through Hiṣān ibn al-Kāhil, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Samurah, from Muʿādh ibn Jabal, attributed to the Prophet. Al-Nasāʾī also recorded it through this route in al-Yawm wa-al-Laylah (1136–1139), as did Ibn Abī Shaybah, Aḥmad ibn Manīʿ, and Abū Yaʿlā, as cited in Zawāʾid al-Būṣīrī (228/2).