and al-Baghawi declared it authentic (2019), as did Ibn Hibban (3731 and 3732). See Musnad Abi Ya‘la (10/347/5943), whose annotator has discussed its chains of transmission and some of its corroborating reports at length.

Note: Al-Suyuti included the hadith cited under both its wordings in al-Jami‘ al-Kabir, reporting it solely on the authority of Ibn ‘Asakir. It is also found in Kanz al-‘Ummal (14/160/38231). He thus overlooked the fact that al-Tirmidhi, like Ibn ‘Asakir, narrated it using the first wording. *

3074 — “When a man says, ‘The people have perished,’ he is the most ruined of them.”

It was narrated by Malik in al-Muwatta’ (3/148), Muslim (8/36), al-Bukhari in al-Adab al-Mufrad (759), Abu Dawud (4983), Ibn Hibban in his Sahih (5732), Ahmad (2/272, 342, 465, and 517), Abu Nu‘aym in Hilyat al-Awliya’ (7/141) and Akhbar Isfahan (1/150, 276, and 2/364), and al-Baghawi in Sharh al-Sunnah (13/144), through several chains from Suhayl ibn Abi Salih, from his father, from Abu Hurayrah, who reported that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said it. Al-Baghawi said: “This is an authentic hadith, recorded by Muslim.” *

3075 — “Moses was a very modest man who kept himself well covered; out of modesty, none of his skin could be seen. Some of the Children of Israel harmed him, saying: ‘He covers himself so completely only because of some defect in his skin—either leprosy, testicular swelling, or some other affliction.’ Allah wished to clear Moses of what they had said about him. One day, he went apart by himself, placed his garments upon a stone, and then bathed. When he had finished, he came to take his clothes, but the stone ran off with them. Moses took up his staff and pursued the stone, saying: ‘My garment, O stone!’