Al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī likewise declared the report authentic and included it in his work al-Mukhtāra (220/2–221/2) through this very chain. Ibn Ḥibbān also transmitted it in his Ṣaḥīḥ (2091) on the authority of Ibn Wahb: “Nāfiʿ ibn Yazīd informed us.”

This ḥadith is among the evidences that invalidate the report cited in al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr in the wording: “Allah has refused to give affliction any power over His believing servant.” A detailed examination of that narration will appear, Allah willing, in al-Aḥādīth al-Ḍaʿīfa.

18 – “Whenever you pass by the grave of a disbeliever, give him the tidings of the Fire.”

Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it (1/19/1): “ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz told us, Muḥammad ibn Abī Naʿīm al-Wāsiṭī told us, Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd related to us, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿĀmir ibn Saʿd, from his father who said:

A Bedouin came to the Prophet ﷺ and said, ‘My father used to maintain family ties and (did) such-and-such; where is he now?’ He replied, ‘In the Fire.’ The Bedouin was distressed and asked, ‘Messenger of Allah, where is your own father?’ He answered accordingly.

Later the Bedouin embraced Islam and said, ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has placed a burden upon me: I never pass a disbeliever’s grave without giving him the news of the Fire.’”

I say: This chain is sound; all its transmitters are trustworthy and well known. Ibn Maʿīn’s dismissal of Muḥammad ibn Abī Naʿīm carries no weight in the face of the endorsements of Aḥmad and Abū Ḥātim—especially since he has a corroborating chain. Al-Ḍiyāʾ recorded it in al-Mukhtāra (1/333) through two routes from Zayd ibn Akhdam: “Yazīd ibn Hārūn told us, Ibrāhīm ibn Saʿd related it,” and he said: