Muslim al-Shami al-Ansari—the freedman of Asma bint Yazid. Al-Bukhari and Ibn Abi Hatim included his biography on the basis of reports from a number of other reliable transmitters, without mentioning any narrator criticism or accreditation concerning him. Ibn Hibban likewise listed him in al-Thiqat (3/255). I say: A transmitter of his standing may be cited as evidence among the Followers, particularly since his hadith has many corroborating reports. Among them is the report narrated by al-Hasan ibn Sufyan from Habib ibn Hurm ibn al-Harith al-Sulami, from his uncle al-Hakam ibn al-Harith al-Sulami, attributed to the Prophet, with the wording: “Whoever leaves behind one dinar has left one cauterization, and whoever leaves behind two dinars has left two cauterizations.”

This is how it is cited in al-Jamiʿ al-Kabir. In Usd al-Ghabah (2/31), it is related from the aforementioned Habib, who said: “My uncle’s stipend amounted to two thousand; whenever his stipend was paid out, he would say to so-and-so: ‘Go and settle what we owe, for I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say ...’” Then he cited it. He further said: “It was included by the three”—meaning Ibn Mandah, Abu Nuʿaym, and Ibn Abd al-Barr. However, he explicitly states in the introduction (1/5) that he means the name, not the hadith. Therefore, it should not be inferred from this that all three included the hadith in their works, especially since Ibn Abd al-Barr did not mention it in his book al-Istiʿab.

As for this Habib ibn Hurm, Ibn Abi Hatim included his biography through the narration of Abu Janab Awn ibn Dhakwan al-Jurashi from him, from his uncle, without mentioning any narrator criticism or accreditation concerning him. Ibn Hibban likewise listed him in al-Thiqat (3/39). Another corroborating report for the hadith is that which al-Tayalisi (357) and others narrated from Asim ibn Bahdalah, from Zirr, from Abdullah—that is, Ibn Masʿud—who said: