al-ʿAbbās al-Bajalī, who said: ʿAbd al-Wārith ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad related: “My father told me: Shuʿbah narrated to us...”

Al-Hakim himself, as well as Abu Nuʿaym in al-Ḥilyah (4/173), also recorded it through a group of transmitters from Ibn Khuzaymah, who said: “ʿAlī ibn Muslim al-Ṭūsī narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn ʿAbd al-Wārith narrated to us: Shuʿbah narrated to us...” Abu Nuʿaym said:

“Singular among the reports of al-Aʿmash and Shuʿbah; no one other than ʿAbd al-Ṣamad narrated it as a report attributed to the Prophet.”

I say: He was truthful and firmly reliable in his narrations from Shuʿbah, as al-Ḥāfiẓ stated in al-Taqrīb. Hence al-Hakim said immediately afterward:

“Authentic according to the criteria of al-Bukhari and Muslim. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad ibn ʿAbd al-Wārith ibn Saʿīd was trustworthy and dependable, and both of them included his narrations, apart from reports in which he was the sole narrator from his father, Shuʿbah, or others.”

Al-Dhahabi agreed with him.

I therefore decided to include it here in al-Sahihah. Praise be to Allah, who has guided us to this; we would never have found guidance had Allah not guided us. *

3295—“Shall I not direct you to one who is stronger than him?”—meaning, the defeated wrestler: “A man whom another man has wronged, yet he suppresses his anger; thus he overcomes him, overcomes his own devil, and overcomes the devil of the one who wronged him.” In another version: “The one who controls himself when angry.”

Al-Bazzar recorded it in his Musnad (2/438–439/2053 and 2054)—with both versions through a single chain of transmission—through Shuʿayb ibn Bayān: “ʿImrān narrated to us, from Qatādah, from Anas, that the Prophet said:”