and 1746 and 2053—the latter being a repetition of the preceding one—and 3183 in al-Ihsan. The last two are numbered 357 and 431 in Mawarid al-Zam'an. As for the hadith bearing the first number, it was omitted there; I have supplied it in my new book, Sahih Mawarid al-Zam'an, which is nearing completion, Allah Most High willing. Indeed, it is now in print; may Allah facilitate its publication soon, Allah willing.

Note: Al-Tabarani’s teacher who corroborates Abu Ya'la is Muhammad ibn al-Sari ibn Mihran, the Baghdadi critic. Al-Khatib wrote his biography (5/318–319) and declared him trustworthy. Before this hadith, al-Tabarani cited five other hadiths from him, attributing him in each to his grandfather, Mihran, except in this instance. This led the annotator of Majma' al-Bahrayn into error: he interpreted him (3/186) as Muhammad ibn al-Sari ibn Sahl Abu Bakr al-Bazzar, who was likewise declared trustworthy by al-Khatib and others. This demonstrates that he was not proficient in this field, for the cause of his mistake was that he failed to notice that al-Tabarani, in al-Awsat, had placed this hadith at the end of his hadiths, as stated above—yet he himself had attributed it to al-Awsat! This is the first point. Secondly, when he saw that al-Khatib had mentioned in Ibn Sahl’s biography that he was one of al-Tabarani’s teachers, he hastily concluded that he was the person in question. Had he been patient and pursued the investigation, he would have found what would have prevented him from falling into error. For immediately after Ibn Sahl’s biography, al-Khatib gave the biography of this Ibn Mihran and mentioned among his teachers Sablan, the narrator of this hadith. Al-Tabarani narrated from him as well!

2554 — “No dust (1) that enters the heart of a Muslim man in the path of Allah does so except that Allah forbids him to the Fire.”