It was recorded by Abū Nuʿaym in al-Ḥilyah (6/176 and 274), who said: “It is singular among Ṣāliḥ’s hadiths; ʿĀṣim alone narrated it.” I say: He is trustworthy, as Abū Zurʿah stated in al-Jarḥ (3/1/350). All the other narrators are likewise trustworthy, apart from Ṣāliḥ al-Murrī, who is weak. Al-Ḥasan ibn Yaḥyā is Ibn Hishām al-Razzī; al-Jarḥ has “al-Rāzī,” which is perhaps a scribal error. Ibn Ḥibbān said: “His hadith is sound; he was a devotee of hadith.”
- As for the hadith of Samurah, it is narrated by Muḥammad ibn Ṣubayḥ ibn al-Sammāk, from Mubārak ibn Fuḍālah, from al-Ḥasan, from him. Abū Nuʿaym also recorded it (8/216) and said: “It is singular among the hadiths of Mubārak and Muḥammad ibn Ṣubayḥ.” I say: Both are truthful, although Ibn Ṣubayḥ had weak retention and Mubārak practised concealment in transmission. In sum, through these three routes, the hadith is no lower than the rank of good. And Allah knows best.
2311 — “Whoever pleases Allah despite people’s displeasure, Allah will suffice him against the people; and whoever angers Allah in seeking people’s pleasure, Allah will leave him to the people.”
It was recorded by ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd in al-Muntakhab min al-Musnad (162/1–2), and by al-Jūzajānī in his book Aḥwāl al-Rijāl (no. 2—my copy); and Ibn Ḥibbān narrated it from him (1541): ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar reported to us: Shuʿbah informed us, from Wāqid, from Ibn Abī Mulaykah, from al-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad, from ʿĀʾishah, attributed to the Prophet.