3013—“Among those who came before you was a man who had a wound. He became impatient, so he took a knife and cut his hand with it. The bleeding did not stop until he died. Allah Most High said: ‘My servant hastened his own death; I have forbidden Paradise to him.’”

Al-Bukhārī recorded it in his Ṣaḥīḥ (3463—Fatḥ): “Muḥammad narrated to us: Ḥajjāj narrated to us: Jarīr narrated to us from al-Ḥasan: Jundub ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us in this mosque—and we have not forgotten it since he narrated it to us, nor do we fear that Jundub lied against the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him—who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said…” Then he mentioned it.

He also cited it in suspended form in the Book of Funerals (1364), saying: “Ḥajjāj ibn Minhāl said: Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim narrated to us,” in a shortened version through the same chain.

This Ḥajjāj was among the narrators of both al-Bukhārī and Muslim; indeed, he was one of al-Bukhārī’s shaykhs. Al-Bukhārī cited the report from him in suspended form, yet recorded it with a continuous chain in the place indicated above. Therefore, al-Ḥāfiẓ said, commenting on this suspended report:

“This is one of the passages cited as evidence that he would sometimes cite in suspended form from one of his shaykhs a report in whose chain there was an intermediary between himself and that shaykh.”

Al-Bukhārī’s shaykh, “Muḥammad,” was Ibn Maʿmar; though it has also been said that he was al-Dhuhlī, as al-Ḥāfiẓ stated. I say: he was corroborated, for al-Ṭabarānī said in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (2/161/1664): “ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz narrated to us: Ḥajjāj ibn Minhāl narrated to us,” through the same chain.

Wahb ibn Jarīr also corroborated him: “My father narrated to us…” Then he mentioned it.

Muslim and Abū Yaʿlā recorded it in his Musnad (3/96/1527).