the source location of the hadith indicated by the reference number: was it the hadith referred to by the first number, or another one? Allah is the One whose help is sought, and indeed, to Allah we belong and to Him we shall return.

I then saw that al-Hafiz, in al-Isabah, attributed al-Dahhak’s hadith to Abu Nu'aym and Ibn Mardawayh. He then said: “Ibn Mardawayh also narrated it from Aishah with a weak chain of transmission, and from Jabir with a chain containing an unidentified narrator.” I say: It appears that its chain from Jabir differs from the one recorded by Ibn Abi Hatim, for—as you have seen—it contains no unidentified narrator. And Allah knows best.

2989 — “He would [teach us that], when [one of us] entered the morning, he should say: ‘We have entered the morning upon the innate disposition of Islam, the word of sincere devotion, the religion of our Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, and the creed of our forefather Abraham, as a devoted monotheist [a Muslim]; and he was not of the polytheists.’”

Al-Nasa'i recorded it in The Deeds of the Day and Night (133/1), as did Ibn al-Sunni (12/32), al-Darimi (2/292), al-Tabarani in Supplication (2/926/294), Ibn Abi Shaybah in al-Musannaf (9/71/6591), and Ahmad (3/407), through numerous authentic chains from Yahya ibn Sa'id, from Sufyan, who said: Salamah ibn Kuhayl narrated to me from Abdullah ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abza, from his father, who said: He then mentioned it. The first two additions are al-Tabarani’s, while the last is found in all the narrations except Ahmad’s.

In another version, he said: Waki' narrated to us from Sufyan ... with the wording: “He would say when he entered the morning and when he entered the evening: ‘We have entered the morning ...’” the hadith. He added: “and when he