I say: This too is one of his errors—may Allah have mercy on him—for al-Haythamī said this only regarding the narration of Qatādah from al-Ḥasan, as mentioned above. Our brother Ḥamdī al-Salafī followed him in this error in his annotation on this narration of Ismāʿīl, as well as on the two passages cited from al-Ṭabarānī. This Ismāʿīl ibn Muslim is the Meccan Basran, and he is weak; he is not the Basran al-ʿAbdī, who is trustworthy. Although they belong to the same generation of narrators, both narrated from al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī. Thus, in many instances, it is possible to determine which of them is intended by considering the narrator who reports from him, as is the case here: al-Thawrī narrates from the Meccan, not al-ʿAbdī, as al-Khaṭīb—may Allah have mercy on him—pointed out.
- In some editions of al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ, the name of the narrator of the hadith, Jundab, has been corrupted to Khubayb. This therefore calls for notice.
Furthermore, the phrase, “like the scholar who teaches people …,” was recorded by al-Aṣbahānī in al-Targhīb (2/876/2144) through Hishām ibn ʿAmmār: “ʿAlī ibn Sulaymān al-Kalbī narrated to us”—Hishām said: “He was a trustworthy Damascene, and al-Walīd narrated from him”—… ********
- “Shall I not tell you about your men in Paradise? The Prophet is in Paradise; the utterly truthful one is in Paradise; the martyr is in Paradise; the child is in Paradise; and a man who visits his brother in another part of the city—visiting him only for Allah’s sake—is in Paradise.
Shall I not tell you about your women in Paradise? Every affectionate, fertile woman who, when she becomes angry, is mistreated, [or her husband becomes angry], says: ‘Here is my hand in yours; I shall not sleep until you are pleased.’”
It was narrated on the authority of Anas, Ibn ʿAbbās, and Kaʿb ibn ʿUjrah.