- Whoever wrongfully usurps a man’s land will meet Allah while He is angry with him.
Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (22/18/25): Ṭālib ibn Qurrah al-Udhnī narrated to us: Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā al-Ṭabbāʿ narrated to us. In another chain, al-Ḥusayn ibn Isḥāq al-Tustarī narrated to us: Yaḥyā al-Ḥimmānī narrated to us. Both said: Abū ʿAwānah narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, from ʿAlqamah ibn Wāʾil, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: … and he mentioned it.
I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. Its narrators are trustworthy and meet Muslim’s criteria through al-Ḥimmānī’s route. Although he had been accused of stealing hadith, he was corroborated through the first route by Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā al-Ṭabbāʿ, who is a trustworthy jurist, as al-Ḥāfiẓ stated in al-Taqrīb.
This important corroboration escaped al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Mundhirī in al-Targhīb (3/54/7), and then al-Haythamī in al-Majmaʿ (4/176). They cited the hadith from ʿAbd Allāh, with the wording mentioned above, and said:
“Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it through Yaḥyā ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Ḥimmānī.”
Al-Haythamī added:
“He is weak, though he has been declared trustworthy, and much has been said concerning him.”
Moreover, they were mistaken in attributing the hadith to ʿAbd Allāh. Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Nājī followed them and proceeded to explain this attribution, saying (folio 167/2):
“Apparently, he is Ibn Masʿūd, for he is the one intended when the name is mentioned without qualification!”
His teacher, al-Ḥāfiẓ al-ʿAsqalānī, stated this definitively in his abridgement, al-Muntaqā, selected from al-Targhīb (177/658):
“From ʿAbd Allāh—that is, Ibn Masʿūd—…” and he then cited the hadith.