seen how a child cries when it falls?” They said, “Yes, O Messenger of Allah.” He said, “That is when Satan strikes him in his sides.”

Ahmad narrated it (2/368). Its chain of transmission is authentic, and its narrators are those of the authentic collections. Yazid ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Qusayt also followed him in reporting it, with wording like Saʿid’s narration. Ibn Jarir narrated it, and its narrators are trustworthy. Abu Salamah also followed him in narrating it from Abu Hurayrah, with wording like Abu Yunus’s narration. Ibn Jarir narrated it.

2712 — “I have come to you only with goodness. I have come to you so that you may worship Allah alone, having no partner; abandon the worship of al-Lat and al-ʿUzza; perform five prayers by night and day; fast one month each year; make pilgrimage to this House; and take from the wealth of your rich and give it back to your poor. Allah has taught me much good, yet among knowledge are five matters known only to Allah:

“Indeed, with Allah alone is knowledge of the Hour; He sends down the rain and knows what is in the wombs. No soul knows what it will earn tomorrow, nor does any soul know in what land it will die.”

Al-Bukhari narrated it in al-Adab al-Mufrad (1084), and Ahmad (5/368–369), through two routes from Mansur, from Ribʿi ibn Hirash, who said: A man from Banu ʿAmir told me that he came to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and said, “May I enter?” The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, then said to the maidservant: