2547 — “When something is entrusted to Allah, He preserves it.”

Al-Nasaʾi recorded it in Daily Practice (509), as did Ibn Hibban (2376 in al-Mawarid), al-Bayhaqi (9/173), al-Tabarani (3/206/2), and ʿAli ibn al-Mufaddal al-Maqdisi in Forty Hadiths on the Virtue of Supplication and Those Who Supplicate (5/250/1), all through Muhammad ibn ʿAʾidh al-Dimashqi: Al-Haytham ibn Humayd informed us, from al-Mutʿim ibn al-Miqdam, from Mujahid, who said:

“I travelled to Iraq, and ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar saw us off. When he took leave of us, he said: ‘I have nothing to give you, but I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say…’” Then he mentioned the hadith. “I entrust to Allah your religion, your trusts, and the final deeds of your lives.”

I say: This is a good chain of transmission. All its narrators are trustworthy, though al-Haytham ibn Humayd has a slight weakness. It has a supporting report from ʿUmar, may Allah be pleased with him, recorded by ʿAbd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad Abu al-Husayn in The Hadith of Abu Bakr ibn Abi al-Hadid (folio 191/2), through Nahshal al-Dabbi, from Abu Ghalib or Abu Quzʿah—or from both of them—from him, attributed to the Prophet.

I say: This is how I found it in my handwritten copy from the aforementioned source. It appears that there is both an omission and an addition in it, for Imam Ahmad recorded it (2/87) through Sufyan, from Nahshal ibn Majmaʿ, from Quzʿah, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: “Luqman the Wise used to say…” Then he mentioned the hadith under the present heading. On another occasion, Nahshal said: “From Quzʿah or from Abu Ghalib.”

Ahmad then recorded it through another route from Sufyan: Nahshal ibn Majmaʿ al-Dabbi informed me—he was considered reliable—from Quzʿah, who said: “The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, informed us that Luqman…” the hadith.

I say: This is an authentic chain, were it not for the fact that Nahshal was uncertain between Quzʿah and Abu Ghalib; and Quzʿah