2360 — “Whoever restrains his anger, Allah will withhold His punishment from him; whoever guards his tongue, Allah will conceal his faults; and whoever offers an excuse to Allah, Allah will accept his excuse.”

Abu Yaʿla transmitted it in his Musnad (3/1071), and through his route al-Diyaʾ transmitted it in al-Mukhtarah (249/2), al-Dulabi in al-Kuna (1/194, 195; 2/44), and Abu ʿUthman al-Nujayrami in al-Fawaʾid (44/2), from al-Rabiʿ ibn Sulayman, who said: Abu ʿAmr, the client of Anas ibn Malik, told me that he heard Anas ibn Malik say it, attributing it to the Prophet.

I say: This is a weak chain of transmission. Abu ʿAmr, the client of Anas, is unknown. In his biographical entry, Ibn Abi Hatim added nothing beyond his statement (4/2/410): “Al-Rabiʿ ibn Sulaym narrated from him.” The annotator remarked: “The same occurs in al-Bukhari’s al-Kuna, no. 474, while in (K) it appears as: Sulayman.”

I say: This is likewise how it appears in Abu Yaʿla and in one place in al-Dulabi’s al-Kuna, where he gives him the kunyah Abu Sulayman. In its other two places, it appears as: “Al-Rabiʿ ibn Muslim”; and this is likewise how it appears in al-Fawaʾid. He also included him in al-Mizan and al-Lisan, as he appears in Ibn Abi Hatim and al-Bukhari: “Rabiʿ ibn Sulaym al-Kufi, from Abu ʿUmar—as written—the client of Anas, in a report attributed to the Prophet,” and then cited the hadith. Yazid ibn al-Hubab narrated it from him, and it is found in the Musnad of Ibn Abi Shaybah. Al-Azdi said: “His hadith is rejected.” Ibn Maʿin said: “He is of no worth.” Abu Hatim said: “He is a shaykh.”

I say: Abu Yaʿla transmitted it through Ibn Abi Shaybah, from al-Rabiʿ ibn Sulayman, as mentioned above. Ibn Abi Hatim also cited it in al-ʿIlal (2/141), through the route of Zayd ibn al-Hubab, but he said: