are weak, and whatever remains of them, even if it adds no strength to it, does it no harm.

Al-Suyūṭī attributed it in al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr, with the wording of al-Tirmidhī cited above, to Ibn ʿAsākir from Anas, and to Ibn Abī Shaybah from Ibn Masʿūd and Jābir as reports attributed to the Companions themselves. I have not come across Jābir’s chain of transmission. As for Ibn Masʿūd’s report, Ibn Abī Shaybah transmitted it in al-Muṣannaf (10/300/9499), through Ismāʿīl, from Abū Sinān, with the chain from him cited above, but he stopped it at Ibn Masʿūd. This does not detract from the version attributed to the Prophet, since the Companion report has the same standing.

I have found for it a very brief corroborating narration, related by Dāwūd ibn al-Zibriqān, from al-Warrāq, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: One day, the Messenger of Allah said to his Companions: “Say: Subḥān Allāh wa bi-ḥamdih (Glory and praise be to Allah) one hundred times. Whoever says it once will have ten recorded for him; whoever says it ten times will have one hundred recorded for him; and whoever says it one hundred times will have one thousand recorded for him. Whoever does more, Allah will grant him still more; and whoever seeks Allah’s forgiveness, He will forgive him.”

Al-Tirmidhī transmitted it (3466) and said: “A good, singular hadith.” That is what he said, and al-Shawkānī endorsed him in Tuḥfat al-Dhākirīn (pp. 237 and 254)! Yet it is open to criticism on two counts. First, Maṭar al-Warrāq: al-Ḥāfiẓ said, “Truthful, but prone to frequent errors.” The other is Dāwūd ibn al-Zibriqān: al-Ḥāfiẓ said, “Abandoned, and al-Azdī declared him a liar.” However, al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mizzī stated in al-Tuḥfah (6/232) that al-Nasāʾī transmitted it in al-Yawm wa al-Laylah through Rūḥ ibn al-Qāsim and al-Muthannā ibn Yazīd, from Maṭar, with similar wording.