147). Thus he—that is, Abu al-ʿUyuf—is among those whose reports may be used as corroboration, if his hadith is not good in itself. And Allah knows best.

The other chain is narrated by ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz, from Hilal, the freedman of ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz, from ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz, from ʿAbd Allah ibn Jaʿfar, from his mother Asmaʾ bint ʿUmays, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) taught me words to say in times of distress: “Allah, Allah is my Lord; I associate nothing with Him.”

It was recorded by al-Bukhari in al-Tarikh al-Kabir (2/2/329), Abu Dawud (1525), Ibn Majah (3928), al-Nasaʾi likewise in ʿAmal al-Yawm wa-al-Laylah (no. 649), Ibn Abi Shaybah in al-Musannaf (10/196/9205), Ahmad (6/369), al-Tabarani in al-Muʿjam al-Kabir (24/135/363) and also in al-Duʿaʾ, and Abu Nuʿaym in al-Hilyah (5/360), through several routes from him. Abu Nuʿaym said: “It is singular among the reports of ʿUmar; only his son narrated it from Hilal, his freedman, from him.”

I say: His son, ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn ʿUmar, is trustworthy and among the narrators used by both al-Bukhari and Muslim. There is disagreement over the various forms of his chain of transmission, which al-Hafiz al-Mizzi mentioned, and he indicated that the preserved version is the one we have cited. On this basis, we may say that it has a good or authentic chain of transmission, since all its other narrators are likewise trustworthy and among the narrators used by both al-Bukhari and Muslim, apart from this Hilal. His agnomen was Abu Tumah, by which he was better known. Ibn ʿAmmar al-Mawsili declared him trustworthy, and a number of narrators reported from him. As for al-Hafiz, he said: “Acceptable; and it has not been established that Makhul accused him of lying.”

This is what I had said in my documentation of the hadith in Sahih Abi Dawud (1364), relying on what is found in Kuna al-Tahdhib and al-Taqrib; then I overlooked this