“The hadith has another chain with similar wording!”

I say: This is contrary to what is actually found in al-Tirmidhi, for he contains only one route for this hadith, from Humayd, from Anas, as mentioned above. The other report was narrated by al-Tirmidhi only through a different route from Humayd, from Anas; it was not another route from Anas, as he has misleadingly suggested! Al-Tirmidhi said after it:

“Similar in wording, but he did not attribute it to the Prophet; and this is sounder than the first.”

Let the reader consider the difference between al-Tirmidhi’s words and those of that abridger. In his ignorance, he ascribed to al-Tirmidhi something not found in his work: “another chain.” Yet he retained from al-Tirmidhi’s words something of no real significance: “similar in wording,” while disregarding his statement: “but he did not attribute it to the Prophet; and this is sounder.”

Had he possessed any learning, he would not have fallen into such confusions. He would have commented on this latter statement in a manner appropriate to the preceding routes from Anas, all of which are attributed to the Prophet. Yet, despite these—and many other—instances of ignorance, as previously indicated, he attributed it all to al-Albani. To Allah is the complaint, and in Him we seek refuge from regression after progress! *

3017—“Whoever from my ummah incurs a debt, then strives to repay it but dies without repaying it, I shall be responsible for him.”

It was recorded by Ahmad in the Musnad (6/74 and 154), Abu Yaʿla (8/252/4838), al-Tabarani in al-Awsat (10/157–158), and al-Bayhaqi in al-Sunan (7/22) and al-Shuʿab (4/403), through the route of ʿAbd Allah ibn Yazid al-Muqriʾ, who said: Saʿid ibn Abi Ayyub narrated to us; ʿUqayl ibn Khalid al-Ayli narrated to us—al-Bayhaqi added: and Yunus ibn Yazid al-Ayli—from