allow one to say that Muslim narrated from him in corroborating reports, even though this particular corroboration is not found in his collection? I have reservations about that.

Further, after his aforementioned statement in Siyar, al-Dhahabi said: “His hadith falls within the category of good.” This is what we understood or inferred from those differing statements. Al-Dhahabi also agreed with al-Hakim in authenticating some of his hadiths, including the hadith whose reference to Takhrij al-Mushkilah (102) was mentioned shortly before.

2684 — “A collar of fire on the Day of Resurrection.” He said this to someone whom he saw wearing a tunic with a silk-trimmed opening.

Al-Bazzar recorded it (p. 172, Zawa'id al-Bazzar) and al-Tabarani in al-Awsat (no. 8166, in my photocopy), through two chains from Isma'il ibn Ayyash: al-Azhar ibn Rashid narrated to us; Sulaym ibn Amir narrated to us, from Jubayr ibn Nufayr, from Mu'adh ibn Jabal, who said: The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) saw a tunic with a silk-trimmed opening and said this. Al-Tabarani said: “It is narrated from Mu'adh only through this chain of transmission; Isma'il ibn Ayyash alone narrated it.”

I say: He is trustworthy in his narrations from Syrian transmitters, and this is one of them, for this al-Azhar ibn Rashid is al-Hawzani, Abu al-Walid, the Syrian. Al-Dhahabi said: “One of the shaykhs of Hariz ibn Uthman; he narrates from Ismah ibn Qays, who was a Companion. I know of no fault in him.” I say: Al-Dhahabi is alluding to Abu Dawud’s statement: “The shaykhs of Hariz are trustworthy.”