Among his rejected reports is the hadith: “Among the worst of people … is a man who is intimate with his wife … then divulges her secret.” I had discussed it in the introduction to the new edition of Adab al-Zifaf, where I refuted that offending Egyptian who, on account of it, accused me of contravening the consensus. This is another example confirming the weakness of Umar ibn Hamzah and his contradiction of the trustworthy narrators, as attested by Imam al-Bayhaqi. Accordingly, his aforementioned addition, “the left,” is rejected. Allah knows best. *

3137—Among his supplications, peace and blessings be upon him, was:

“O Allah, I seek refuge in You from an evil neighbor; from a wife who makes me grow gray before old age; from a child who becomes a master over me; from wealth that becomes a punishment for me; and from a deceitful close friend whose eye watches me and whose heart keeps close watch over me: if he sees a good deed, he conceals it; and if he sees an evil deed, he spreads it abroad.”

Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Duʿaʾ (3/1425/1339): Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Hanbal related to us: al-Hasan ibn Hammad al-Hadrami related to us: Abu Khalid al-Ahmar related to us from Muhammad ibn Ajlan, from Saʿid al-Maqburi, from Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, who said … and he cited it.

I say: This is a good chain of transmission. All its narrators are included in al-Tahdhib; were it not for the well-known disagreement concerning Ibn Ajlan, I would have declared it authentic.

Al-Daylami also narrated the hadith in Musnad al-Firdaws (1/1/183), through Abu Bakr ibn Abi Asim: al-Hasan ibn Sahl related to us: Abu Khalid al-Ahmar related to us through the same chain, restricting it to its second half, with the wording: “O Allah, I seek refuge in You from a deceitful close friend …,” and so forth.