as al-Hafiz explicitly states in al-Tahdhib. His memory has been criticized, and he alluded to this in al-Taqrib when he said: “Truthful, but makes mistakes.” Al-Dhahabi said in al-Mizan: “His reports are acceptable.” Thus, his reports are good, if Allah Most High wills.

As for al-Hafiz’s statement in Mukhtasar Zawa’id al-Bazzar (1/565), “Its chain is authentic!”—this is clearly lenient. Al-Tayalisi also recorded it in his Musnad (2756), and al-Bayhaqi (2/125/2) through his chain: Abu Talhah al-Aʿma narrated to us from a man whom he had identified, from Ibn ʿAbbas, with similar wording: “O young men of Quraysh, do not commit adultery, for whoever Allah preserves during his youth shall enter Paradise.”

If Abu Talhah al-Aʿma is not the aforementioned al-Rasibi, then I do not know who he is. Perhaps “the man” was Muʿawiyah ibn Qurrah, for al-Dulabi recorded it in al-Kuna (2/18), with an authentic chain, from Abu Qutaybah, from Shaddad Abu Talhah, from Muʿawiyah ibn Qurrah, from Ibn ʿAbbas, with similar wording. Abu Qutaybah was Salm ibn Qutaybah al-Shuʿayri, a trustworthy narrator whose reports were recorded by al-Bukhari. It may be, then, that al-Rasibi had two chains for this hadith from Ibn ʿAbbas, relating it at times through this one and at other times through that one; and each narrated from him what he had heard from him, while all are trustworthy. Allah knows best.

Also bearing the same meaning is the saying of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him: