- “Whoever I am mentioned in his presence and he neglects to invoke blessings upon me will miss the path to Paradise.”
ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī al-Wazīr narrated it in Six Sessions (190/2). He said: It was read to Abū al-Ḥasan Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Jundaysābūrī while I was listening. He was asked: “Did Jaʿfar ibn ʿĀmir and Sahl ibn Baḥr narrate to you?” They said: “ʿUmar ibn Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth narrated to us; my father narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah, attributing it to the Prophet.”
I say: This is a good chain of transmission, provided that the reliability of this al-Jundaysābūrī is established, for I do not know him. The same applies to Jaʿfar ibn ʿĀmir, but he is paired with Sahl ibn Baḥr. Ibn Abī Ḥātim said of the latter (2/1/194): “I wrote from him in Rayy together with my father, and he was truthful.”
However, the hadith is authentic, for it was narrated from Ibn ʿAbbās by Ibn Mājah; from Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī by al-Ṭabarānī; and from his son, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥusayn, Abū Jaʿfar al-Bāqir, as a mursal report by Ismāʿīl al-Qāḍī in The Virtue of Invoking Blessings upon the Prophet (nos. 41–44, edited by me). Although these reports are not free of weakness, some of them strengthen others, particularly since the mursal report among them is authentic, as I have explained there.
- “Whoever sets out one afternoon in the cause of Allah will have, on the Day of Resurrection, an amount of musk equivalent to the dust that settles upon him.”
Ibn Mājah transmitted it (2/177): Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd ibn Yazīd ibn Ibrāhīm al-Tustarī narrated to us; Abū ʿĀṣim narrated to us, from Shabīb, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said it.
I say: This is a good chain of transmission. Shabīb—who is Ibn Bishr—is disputed over, and al-Ḥāfiẓ said: