a good chain of transmission, and it rises to the level of sound authenticity through the corroboration of Sadaqah ibn Musa, from Thabit, with the same report.

Al-Bazzar recorded it in his Musnad (2/36/1144) and said:

“We know of no one who narrated it from Thabit except Sadaqah. He was from Basra; there is no harm in him. No one corroborated him in this, but his hadith is acceptable.”

That is what he said! Thus he is on one side, and al-Tabarani’s statement is on another. Allah has spoken the truth: “And you have been given but little knowledge” [al-Isra 17:85].

Al-Hafiz critiqued this in Mukhtasar al-Zawaid (1/1/468/79), saying:

“I say: Rather, he is weak, though he was corroborated.”

Thus, here he categorically judged him to be weak—namely, Sadaqah al-Daqiqi. Al-Dhahabi made a similar statement in al-Kashif: “He was declared weak.”

Al-Hafiz said in al-Taqrib:

“Truthful, but prone to errors.” *

3048—“There was a man among those before you who had never done any good at all except tawhid (affirming Allah’s oneness). When death approached him, he said to his family: ‘See to it that, when I die, they burn him until they reduce him to ashes; then grind him up and scatter him on a windy day. [Then scatter half of him over land and half of him into the sea. By Allah, if Allah has power over him, He will surely punish him with a punishment unlike that inflicted on anyone in all the worlds.]’ When he died, they did that to him. [Allah then commanded the land to gather what was in it, and commanded the sea to gather what was in it.] Then there he was, [standing] in the grasp of Allah,”