from him, peace and blessings be upon him, that he said in the hadith of al-Tufayl cited above under no. 138:

“... You used to utter a phrase which, out of shyness toward you, I had been reluctant to forbid you from saying: ‘Do not say: Whatever Allah wills and whatever Muhammad wills.’”

(A further note:) Earlier, when I attributed the hadith to al-Tirmidhi, I coupled this with the words, “with some abridgement”; that is, it was an abridged version of the hadith under discussion, devoid of the aforementioned story of Zaynab. It is poor hadith documentation, and a lack of understanding and careful verification, for the annotator of Musnad Abi Ya‘la to attribute it to al-Tirmidhi without at least indicating that al-Tirmidhi’s version is a greatly abridged form of this report and does not contain the story. The resulting deficiency plainly misleads readers into thinking that al-Tirmidhi narrated it in full, as did Abu Ya‘la.

Regrettably, he repeatedly creates such misleading impressions in his work on this Musnad collection and on Mawarid al-Zam’an, for which he produced extensive source documentation and annotations, until the book came to be printed in eight volumes. I have drawn attention to some of these misleading impressions, as well as to his leniency in declaring hadiths authentic, in certain passages of my two books, Sahih Mawarid al-Zam’an and Da‘if Mawarid al-Zam’an, both of which are in press. *

3143—(Whoever is tested with any of these daughters and treats them well, they will be a shield for him from the Fire.)

Recorded by al-Bukhari (1418 and 5995)—and in al-Adab al-Mufrad (132)—Muslim (8/38), al-Tirmidhi (1916)—which he graded good—and (1918)—which he authenticated—Ibn Hibban (2928), al-Khara’iti in Makarim al-Akhlaq (p. 72), al-Bayhaqi in al-Sunan (7/478) and in al-Shu‘ab (7/467), and al-Baghawi in Sharh al-Sunnah (6/187),