And all those above him in the chain are trustworthy, meeting Muslim’s criteria. It is also found in the two Ṣaḥīḥs with similar wording, as noted earlier regarding the preceding hadith. Ibn Ḥibbān likewise narrated it in his Ṣaḥīḥ (2904, al-Iḥsān).
2285 — “The believer is like a date palm: whatever you take from it benefits you.”
Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it (3/204/1): Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Saqaṭī narrated to us; Saʿīd ibn Sulaymān informed us; from ʿAbbād ibn al-ʿAwwām; from Sufyān ibn Ḥusayn; from Abū Bishr; from Mujāhid; from Ibn ʿUmar, attributed to the Prophet. He then narrated it (204/2) through Sharīk, from Salamah ibn Kuhayl, from Mujāhid, from him, but without its second half.
I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. Its narrators are trustworthy narrators of the two Ṣaḥīḥs, apart from this al-Saqaṭī, who is trustworthy, as al-Khaṭīb stated (3/153). In the other route is Sharīk, namely Ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qāḍī, who had poor retention, though he may be used as corroborating evidence.
2286 — “My community is like rain: it is not known whether its beginning is better or its end.”
It has been reported through Anas, ʿAmmār ibn Yāsir, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr.
- As for the hadith of Anas, it has four routes from him. The first is through Ḥammād ibn Yaḥyā al-Abaḥ, from Thābit al-Bunānī, from him, attributed to the Prophet.