(no. 1078), and Ibn ʿAsākir, from Qinān al-Nahamī, who said: Muṣʿab ibn Saʿd narrated to us from his father, attributing it to the Prophet. I say: This is a good chain of transmission. Qinān is Ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Nahamī; Ibn Maʿīn and Ibn Ḥibbān declared him trustworthy, while al-Nasāʾī said: “He is not strong.”

The third: Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh. Ibn ʿAsākir recorded it, as did al-Sahmī in Tārīkh Jurjān (325), from Ismāʿīl ibn Bahrām al-Kūfī, who said: Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar narrated to me from his father, from his grandfather, from Jābir, attributing to the Prophet a report with the same meaning. I say: This Ismāʿīl was truthful; he died in 241 AH and was among Ibn Mājah’s shaykhs. However, this Muḥammad—namely, the son of Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq—was subject to criticism. In sum, the hadith is authentic when all these routes are considered together.

Note: Our colleague Waṣī Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbbās made some valuable remarks concerning the hadith in his annotation to al-Faḍāʾil, regarding the first two routes. However, after judging the first weak and the other good, he then lapsed and said, following the latter: “It has already appeared under no. 981 with an authentic chain of transmission from ʿAmr ibn Shās, with similar wording!” As for the commentator on Abū Yaʿlā, he made his grading of the chain as good conditional upon Qinān’s having heard from Muṣʿab, despite the fact that Qinān explicitly stated that he had narrated directly in Abū Yaʿlā and elsewhere!

2296—“Whoever loses three of his own children and seeks Allah’s reward for them will be admitted to Paradise.”

Ibn ʿAsākir recorded it (14/354/1) from ʿAmr ibn al-Ḥārith, who said that Abū ʿAshānah al-Maʿāfirī told him that he heard ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir al-Juhanī say: He then mentioned it, attributing it to the Prophet.