in opposing them! “O you who believe, why do you say what you do not do? It is most hateful to Allah that you say what you do not do.” May Allah rectify and guide him.

2648 — “When two men from among the Companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, met, they would not part until one recited to the other: ‘By Time: surely man is in loss,’ then one would bid the other farewell with the greeting of peace.”

Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Awsat (2/11/2/5256): Muhammad ibn Hisham al-Mustamli narrated to us; Ubayd Allah ibn Aishah narrated to us; Hammad ibn Salamah narrated to us from Thabit al-Bunani, from Abu Madinah al-Darimi—who was a Companion [of the Prophet]—who said: … then he cited it. He said: “It is not narrated from Abu Madinah except through this chain of transmission.” Ibn al-Madini said: “Abu Madinah’s name was Abdullah ibn Hafs.”

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. Its narrators are trustworthy and are narrators of Muslim, apart from Muhammad ibn Hisham al-Mustamli. He was Abu Jafar al-Marwazi, known as Ibn Abi al-Dumayk, and served as the dictation-repeater for al-Hasan ibn Arafah. He died in 289 AH. Al-Khatib included his biography (3/361–362) and declared him trustworthy. Al-Daraqutni said: “There is no harm in him.”

Al-Haythami also cited the hadith in al-Majma (10/307) and said: “Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Awsat, and its narrators are those of the Sahih, apart from Ibn Aishah, who is trustworthy.” Then I found the hadith in Shuab al-Iman (6/501/9057), through Yahya ibn Abi Bukayr, who said: Hammad ibn Salamah informed us of it. And he said: