People’s Change and Hypocrisy

3023 — “You commit deeds that seem to you more insignificant than a hair, whereas, in the time of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, we counted them among the destructive sins.”

It was recorded by Aḥmad (3/3) and al-Bazzār (1/72/108), through the route of ʿAbbād ibn Rāshid, from Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind, from Abū Naḍrah, from Abū Saʿīd, who said … and then mentioned it.

I say: This is a chain of transmission whose narrators are those of the Ṣaḥīḥ collections. Were it not for some criticism concerning ʿAbbād ibn Rāshid’s precision, I would have judged it authentic. Thus, the chain is good. Al-Haythamī indicated this when he said (1/106):

“It was narrated by al-Bazzār, and it includes ʿAbbād ibn Rāshid. Ibn Maʿīn and others declared him trustworthy, while Abū Dāwūd and others declared him weak.”

Al-Ḥāfiẓ likewise indicated this in his statement concerning him:

“Truthful, but prone to errors.”

In the place cited above, al-Haythamī overlooked attributing it to Aḥmad, but he corrected this elsewhere—though there he did not attribute it to al-Bazzār. He said (10/190):

“It was narrated by Aḥmad, and its narrators are those of the Ṣaḥīḥ collections.”

The hadith has also been narrated through two authentic chains from two other Companions. One of them is Anas ibn Mālik, from whom there are two routes:

The first: from Mahdī, from Ghaylān, from him.