Yūnus said: “I used to see Ibn Shihāb do that when he retired to bed.”

ʿAbd Allāh—namely Ibn al-Mubārak—also corroborated him, saying: Yūnus informed us, with the wording:

“When he fell ill, he would blow lightly over himself with the protective surahs and wipe himself with his hand. Then, when he suffered from the illness of which he died, I began to blow lightly over him with the protective surahs with which he used to blow, and to wipe him with the Prophet’s hand.”

Al-Bukhārī also recorded it (4439).

Muslim and Ibn Ḥibbān (6556) narrated it through another route from him.

As for Mālik’s narration, it appears in al-Muwaṭṭaʾ (3/121), from Ibn Shihāb through the same chain, in abridged form with the wording:

“When he fell ill, he would recite the protective surahs over himself and blow lightly.” She said: “Then, when his illness became severe, I would recite over him and wipe him with his right hand, seeking its blessing.”

Through Mālik, it was recorded by al-Bukhārī (5016), Muslim (7/16), Abū Dāwūd (3902), al-Nasāʾī in ʿAmal al-Yawm (1009), Ibn Mājah (3528), and Aḥmad (6/104, 114, 181, 256, and 263), all of them from Mālik through this chain.

One of the obvious errors is the statement of the annotator on the hadith under the chapter heading, in the marginal notes to al-Nasāʾī’s ʿAmal al-Yawm:

“Muslim also recorded it through Mālik from Ibn Shihāb in a more complete form than this!”

He apparently meant the statement of ʿĀʾishah: “Then, when his illness became severe ...” But this is contrary to what is naturally understood from his words, “in a more complete form than this,” for the hadith in al-Nasāʾī occurs among the bedtime remembrances, whereas the hadith under the heading is more complete than it, as you can see. Moreover, he overlooked that it is also found in al-Bukhārī. For this reason—