and in al-Duʿāʾ (no. 412), through several chains from him. None of them contains the words, “In the name of Allah; I place my trust in Allah,” except Ahmad, whose version has only, “In the name of Allah.” Abu Dawud and al-Tabarani added at its beginning the following wording:
“Whenever he left his house, he would raise his gaze to heaven and say: ‘O Allah, I seek refuge in You lest I go astray, slip, or be caused to slip …’” and so on in the hadith. Thus, it is worded throughout in the singular.
The two aforementioned scholars narrated it through Muslim ibn Ibrahim al-Farahidi, who is trustworthy. However, the fact that he alone transmitted the phrase about raising one’s gaze to heaven, to the exclusion of the other routes from Shuʿbah, leaves one unconvinced of its establishment—especially since it does not occur in the other routes from Mansur that follow, except in some of the routes from Fudayl ibn ʿIyad—the fifth of them—and there is further discussion concerning it below.
Third: Jarir—namely, Ibn ʿAbd al-Hamid—from Mansur, with the same report. He added only the phrase, “In the name of Allah.” It was narrated by al-Nasa’i and al-Bayhaqi in al-Sunan (5/251).
Fourth: ʿUbaydah ibn Humayd, from him. Ibn Abi Shaybah narrated it in al-Musannaf (10/211/9249), and Ibn Majah narrated it from him (2/1278/3884), as did al-Tabarani (no. 732). Both narrated it from him, who said: “ʿUbaydah ibn Humayd narrated to us,” with the singular form used in all the verbs.
Fifth: Fudayl ibn ʿIyad. Al-Humaydi said in his Musnad (145/303): “Fudayl ibn ʿIyad narrated to us from Mansur,” with a wording like that immediately preceding it.
Al-Tabarani also narrated it in al-Duʿāʾ, as did Abu Nuʿaym in al-Hilyah (8/125), through other routes from Fudayl, with the same wording. However, al-Tabarani added the aforementioned addition found in Abu Dawud and al-Tabarani’s version of Shuʿbah’s hadith—the second route—but through Muhammad ibn Ziyad al-Ziyadi and Ahmad ibn Yunus, who both said: “Fudayl ibn ʿIyad narrated to us from Mansur,” and he said, “in the morning,” instead of “ever.”