- “Indeed, Allah tests His servant with illness until it expiates every sin for him.”
Al-Ḥākim narrated it (1/347–348) through ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Salmān al-Ḥajarī, from ʿAmr ibn Abī ʿAmr, from al-Maqburī, from Abū Hurayrah, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—say ... and he then cited it. He said:
“Authentic according to the criteria of al-Bukhārī and Muslim!”
Al-Dhahabī agreed with him, and al-Mundhirī endorsed it in al-Targhīb (4/153/63).
I say: Al-Bukhārī did not narrate from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Salmān al-Ḥajarī at all; rather, he said, “There is some question concerning him.” Others declared him trustworthy, while some deemed him weak. Abū Ḥātim said, “Acceptable in hadith.” In al-Taqrīb, it states: “There is no harm in him.”
Thus, the chain is good and meets Muslim’s criteria.
Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān—who was trustworthy and among the narrators of both al-Bukhārī and Muslim—differed from him, narrating: from ʿAmr ibn Abī ʿAmr, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥuwayrith, from Muḥammad ibn Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah—peace and blessings be upon him—said ... and he then cited it.