by the liars, who pay no heed to his wise saying, peace and blessings be upon him: “One of you sees the speck in his brother’s eye, yet does not see the log in his own eye.” Its documentation, both as a Prophetic report and as a Companion statement, has preceded under no. 33. And the one safeguarded is he whom Allah safeguards.

3317—“O Allah, bring to this food a servant whom You love and who loves You.” Then Saʿd [ibn Abī Waqqāṣ] appeared.

Al-Bazzār transmitted it in al-Baḥr al-Zakhkhār (4/46/1210) through Maʿn ibn ʿĪsā, who said: “ʿUbaydah bint Nābil related to me, from ʿĀʾishah bint Saʿd, from her father, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, had food before him and said…” He then cited it. Al-Bazzār said:

“We know of no report with this wording from Saʿd except through this chain of transmission.”

I say: This is a good chain of transmission. Its narrators are trustworthy, apart from ʿUbaydah bint Nābil. Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned her in al-Thiqāt (7/307), through al-Khaṣīb ibn Nāṣiḥ’s narration from her. A number of others also narrated from her, including Maʿn ibn ʿĪsā—as you can see in this chain of transmission—and Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad al-Farawī, as stated in al-Tahdhīb; and ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥarrānī, as al-Bazzār stated in al-Baḥr al-Zakhkhār (4/44). Al-Farawī’s narrations from her appear there under nos. 1205–1208, and al-Ḥarrānī’s narration from her under no. 1209. Thus, she is a truthful and reliable narrator, contrary to al-Ḥāfiẓ’s classification of her as “acceptable”! For this reason, al-Dhahabī did not mention her in the section on unknown women at the end of al-Mīzān; rather, he declared her hadith sound, as will follow.

As for al-Khaṣīb’s narration from her, al-Ḥākim transmitted it in al-Mustadrak (3/499) through al-Rabīʿ ibn Sulaymān: “Al-Khaṣīb ibn Nāṣiḥ narrated to us; ʿUbaydah bint—originally written: ibn—Nābil—originally written: Nāʾil—narrated to us, from ʿĀʾishah bint Saʿd,” with the same report. He said: