“No one narrated it from al-Waḍīn ibn ʿAṭāʾ except Yaḥyā ibn Ḥamzah.”

I say: He is trustworthy and among the narrators relied upon by both al-Bukhārī and Muslim, and all the other narrators are trustworthy. There is some criticism of al-Waḍīn and Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—who was the grandson of Shuraḥbīl—regarding their retention, but this does not lower either of their reports below the rank of good. Hence al-Mundhirī said in al-Targhīb (4/79)—and al-Haythamī followed him (10/202):

“Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it with a good chain of transmission.”

Al-Aṣbahānī also narrated it in al-Targhīb (1/94/151) as a statement of al-Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ, in which he said:

Then al-Fuḍayl wept and said, “I ask Allah to make us and you among those who do good in what remains.”

Its attribution to the Prophet escaped some later scholars. Shaykh al-ʿAjlūnī included it in Kashf al-Khafāʾ and said (2/225):

“Al-Najm said: I did not find it among the hadith attributed to the Prophet. Rather, al-Aṣbahānī narrated it in al-Targhīb as a statement of al-Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ. A report with a similar meaning was narrated by al-Bukhārī, Muslim, and Ibn Mājah from Ibn Masʿūd …”

He then mentioned the hadith that follows this one.

Al-Dārimī also narrated at the beginning of his Sunan (1/3–4), through another chain from al-Waḍīn:

A man came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and said, “O Messenger of Allah, we were people of the Age of Ignorance and worshippers of idols. We used to kill our children. I had a daughter, and when she had become responsive, she would be delighted whenever I called her. One day, I called her, and she followed me. I continued on until I came to a nearby well belonging to my people. I took her by the hand and threw her into the well. The last thing I heard her say was:”