and that of al-Bukhari! There is another error whose clarification would serve no worthwhile purpose.

The second: The corroborating report cited above, from the hadith of Thabit ibn al-Dahhak, was recorded by al-Baghawi in Sharh al-Sunnah (10/154/2524) as an independent statement, separate from what precedes and follows it. He said: “It is an authentic hadith recorded by Muslim.”

He overlooked the fact that it is also in al-Bukhari, as did its annotator, who attributed it only to al-Shafi‘i and Muslim.

Furthermore, the phrase concerning rashly venturing forth was corrupted in the transmission of some weak narrators, who reported it with the wording:

“Whoever rashly ventures forth in this world will rashly venture into the Fire.”

For this reason, I had traced it in al-Da‘ifah, no. 4576. *

3422 — “Do not consider any act of kindness that you can do too insignificant, even if it is to give a length of rope, to pour from your bucket into the vessel of one drawing water, to meet your Muslim brother with a cheerful face, to keep a lonely person company, or to give away a sandal strap.”

Al-Nasa’i recorded it in al-Sunan al-Kubra (5/486–478/9694) through Sahm ibn al-Mu‘tamir, from al-Hujaymi, who said:

He came to Medina and met the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in one of the streets of Medina. He found him wearing a cotton waist-wrapper (1), whose edge had frayed. He said, “Peace be upon you, O Messenger of Allah!” The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: