“…and narrate from me, but do not lie about me.” Its chain of transmission is good. It has another corroborating report from the hadith of Ibn ʿAmr, narrated by al-Bukhari and others, and documented in al-Rawḍ al-Naḍīr (582).

Note: The suspended version of this hadith in al-Baʿth, as well as the one in Zuhd Wakīʿ, has been deemed defective on the basis of al-Dhahabi’s statement concerning its narrator, al-Rabīʿ ibn Saʿd al-Juʿfī: “He is scarcely known.” This is what he said, but he overlooked Abū Ḥātim’s statement about him: “There is no problem with him.” Others also declared him trustworthy, as I mentioned in Taysīr al-Intifāʿ. Five trustworthy narrators transmitted from him; therefore, someone of his standing may be cited as evidence, and one may feel at ease with his hadith—particularly since he belonged to the generation following the Successors. The term khulāsī means dark-complexioned; a child born to one white and one black parent is called khulāsī.

2927 — “No. He used to give for worldly gain, to be spoken of and praised for it, and he never once said: ‘My Lord, forgive me my sin on the Day of Recompense.’”

Abū Yaʿlā recorded it in his Musnad (6965), and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (23/279/606 and 391/932), through several routes from Manṣūr, from Mujāhid, from Umm Salamah, who said: I said to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, “Hishām ibn al-Mughīrah maintained ties of kinship, entertained guests, freed captives, and fed people. Had he lived to embrace Islam, would that have benefited him?” He replied with the above words.