- And a man in his home who does not backbite a Muslim or provoke their anger or resentment: if he dies, Allah guarantees his admission to Paradise.
Al-Tabarani transmitted it in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat (4/491/3834), through the chain of al-Hakam ibn Bashir ibn Salman, from Amr ibn Qays al-Mula'i, from Isa ibn Abd al-Rahman, from al-Zuhri, from Urwah ibn al-Zubayr, from Aishah, attributed to the Prophet. He said:
“No one narrated it from Isa ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Layla—as stated—except Amr ibn Qays; and al-Hakam ibn Bashir ibn Salman was alone in narrating it.”
I say: This al-Hakam is truthful.
His teacher, Amr ibn Qays al-Mula'i, was trustworthy and meticulous, and one of Muslim’s narrators.
His teacher, Isa ibn Abd al-Rahman, was Ibn Farwah—or, it is said, Ibn Sabrah—the Ansari. He was very weak. Al-Bukhari said:
“His hadith is rejected.”
Al-Nasai said:
“His hadith is abandoned.”
Ibn Hibban said in al-Du'afa (2/120):
“He was one of those who narrated rejected reports from well-known authorities. He related from al-Zuhri reports that were not among his hadith, without even concealing the defect in reporting from him; he therefore deserved to be abandoned.”
I say: He is the very narrator whose biographical notice states that he narrated from al-Zuhri and that Amr ibn Qays al-Mula'i narrated from him. Thus, al-Tabarani’s subsequent identification of him as Ibn Abi Layla is an obvious error—perhaps