transmitted by Muhammad ibn Ali al-Najjar from him; it appears in volume six (1–132). Likewise, the Book of Sales and Testimonies is transmitted by al-Najjar from him in volume eight (1–368). I also found in it the Book of the Two Peoples of the Book, transmitted by Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Hudhaqi from him; it appears in volume ten (311–378). There may be other books not transmitted through al-Dabari. Its editor, Shaykh Habib al-Rahman al-Azami, ought to have clarified this and other matters in the introduction he promised to publish, but he did not do so. The book has been published in its entirety, yet we have found no trace of that introduction in any of its volumes. Perhaps he intended to do so; then he died—may Allah have mercy on him—so perhaps he did so.

2686 — “Whoever says upon entering the morning: ‘I am pleased with Allah as my Lord, with Islam as my religion, and with Muhammad as my Prophet,’ I undertake to take him by the hand until I admit him into Paradise.”

Al-Mundhiri cited it in al-Targhib (1/229) as a hadith from al-Munydhir, a Companion of the Messenger of Allah, who used to reside in Ifriqiya. He said: “I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say,” and then mentioned it. He said: “Al-Tabarani narrated it with a good chain of transmission.” Al-Haythami likewise said so in al-Majmaʿ (10/116). Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar, however, criticized this in his annotations upon it, saying: “I say: It contains Rushdayn, and he is weak.”

I say: I had followed him in this judgment in al-Taʿliq al-Raghib, and accordingly included it in Daʿif al-Targhib. Then it became clear to me that Rushdayn was not alone in narrating it, for he narrated it from Huyayy ibn