“No one narrated it from Ismāʿīl except Mālik ibn Mighwal, and no one narrated it from him except Qabīṣah; his son was alone in narrating it from him.”

I say: He was truthful. Al-Nasāʾī said, “He is acceptable,” and Ibn Ḥibbān included him among the trustworthy narrators. All those above him in the chain are trustworthy narrators of al-Bukhārī and Muslim. ʿAlī ibn Saʿīd al-Rāzī is a good hadith narrator, as I explained under hadith (236). Ibn al-Naḥḥās al-Dimyāṭī regarded it as good in Maṣāriʿ al-ʿUshshāq (1/107), having been preceded in this by al-Mundhirī in al-Targhīb (2/200).

It is corroborated by the hadith concerning the ʿīnah transaction (a sale-and-buyback arrangement), which includes: “...and you abandon jihad in the path of Allah, Allah will inflict upon you a humiliation that He will not remove until you return to your religion.” This is an authentic hadith, as previously explained under no. (11).

I say: This hadith is among the signs of his prophethood, peace and blessings be upon him, as is borne out by the condition of Muslims in many lands. Nor is the incident of the Jews’ attack upon Muslims while they were prostrating during the Friday dawn prayer in Ramadan of this year (1414), at the mosque in Hebron, Palestine, a remote example. Allah has spoken the truth: “Whatever misfortune befalls you is because of what your own hands have earned, though He pardons much.” I ask Allah Most High to inspire Muslims to return to a sound understanding of their religion and to act upon it, so that He may grant them might and give them victory over their enemy.

2664 — “Whoever says, after the dawn prayer, ‘There is no deity worthy of worship except Allah alone, without partner. To Him belong all dominion and praise. He gives life and causes death; all good is in His hand, and He is over all things competent,’ one hundred times while still seated with his legs folded, will that day be the foremost of the people of the earth in deeds, except one who says the same as he said or says more than he said.”