“Al-Haytham ibn Jamil also corroborated it, reporting from Ibn Uyaynah.” I say: Al-Haytham is trustworthy and among al-Bukhari’s narrators; therefore, the hadith is not rejected, especially since in al-Kashf (1202) he followed it with another route, through Zam‘ah from al-Zuhri, with the same wording. Then, in (1203), through Hisham ibn Urwah, from his father, with the same wording. Its chain of transmission is authentic.

It has a third corroborating report: “Indeed, some poetry contains wisdom, and some eloquence is magic.” It was narrated by al-Bukhari in al-Adab al-Mufrad (125–126), Abu Dawud (2/315), al-Tirmidhi (2/138), Ibn Majah (2/410), al-Tayalisi (p. 348, no. 2670), and Ahmad (1/269, 303, 309, 313, 327, and 332), through the route of Simak ibn Harb, from Ikrimah, from Ibn Abbas, attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. Ibn Majah does not include the second clause, nor does al-Tirmidhi, who said: “A good, authentic hadith.” Its occasion was that a Bedouin came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and spoke with clear eloquence, whereupon he said it.

Note: The hadith of Ubayy appears in Sahih al-Jami‘ and its Supplement as also attributed to Muslim. The same occurs in the manuscript copy held at al-Zahiriyyah of the Supplement to al-Jami‘ al-Saghir, but this is an error. The correct attribution appears in al-Jami‘ al-Kabir (7136). Al-Mizzi did not attribute it to Muslim in his Tuhfah, nor is it mentioned in its index compiled by Abd al-Baqi at the end of the fifth volume of Muslim.

2852 — “Indeed, death has terrors.”

It was narrated by Ibn Khuzaymah in Hadith Ali ibn Hujr (vol. 3, no. 35) and al-Hakim (1/