—as al-Nasaʾī stated. Yet I consider it unlikely that he is the one intended in this hadith, for two reasons. First, had it been him, Imam al-Ṭaḥāwī would have identified him by his lineage, to distinguish him from the trustworthy Bakkār ibn Qutaybah. Second, I have not seen any narration from him from Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī, unlike Ibn Qutaybah. And Allah knows best.

2335 — “Whoever fears sets out by night, and whoever sets out by night reaches his destination. Indeed, Allah’s commodity is precious; indeed, Allah’s commodity is Paradise.”

Al-Bukhārī recorded it in al-Tārīkh (1/2/111/1873), as did al-Tirmidhī (2452), al-Ḥākim (4/307–308), ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd in al-Muntakhab min al-Musnad (156/2), al-ʿUqaylī in al-Ḍuʿafāʾ (457), al-Quḍāʿī (33/1), and Abū Nuʿaym in al-Jannah (8/2), through Abū ʿAqīl al-Thaqafī, who said: Yazīd ibn Sinān al-Tamīmī narrated to us: I heard Bukayr ibn Fayrūz say: I heard Abū Hurayrah say—then he cited it as attributed to the Prophet.

Al-ʿUqaylī said: “Yazīd ibn Sinān, Abū Farwah al-Rahāwī, is not corroborated in this report and is known only through it. Yaḥyā said: ‘He is nothing.’” Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Taqrīb: “Weak.” Al-Tirmidhī was lax and said: “A good, singular hadith!” And al-Ḥākim said: