(7/427/10845), and al-Khaṭīb in al-Tārīkh (7/186), through several routes from Muḥammad ibn Muslim, from Ibrāhīm ibn Maysarah, from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, from his father, from his grandfather, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: … He then cited it.

The phrase “from his father” is omitted from al-Zuhd.

I say: This chain is good due to external corroboration, at the very least, because Muḥammad ibn Muslim—the Ṭāʾifī—has been criticised with respect to his retention. Muslim narrated from him only as a corroborating narrator, according to the more accurate view. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Taqrīb:

“Truthful, but makes errors when narrating from memory.”

I say: His error is precluded by the forthcoming corroboration of Ibn Lahīʿah. Al-Khaṭīb also narrated from ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Bashshār al-Janābī—an exceptionally comprehensive collector—that he had never heard anything finer than this hadith concerning asceticism.

Ibn Lahīʿah also narrated it from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb through the same chain, with the wording: “The earliest part of this ummah was saved …” the hadith.

It was recorded by Ibn Abī al-Dunyā in Qiṣar al-Amal (36/20) and al-Yaqīn (17/3), and through him by al-Aṣbahānī in al-Targhīb (1/98/164 and 2/2515). Likewise, al-Daylamī recorded it in Musnad al-Firdaws (3/104), through Marwān ibn Muḥammad, and al-Bayhaqī (10844), through al-Muʿāfā, from Ibn Lahīʿah, through the same chain.

Ibn Lahīʿah is trustworthy, though he suffered from poor retention; thus, his hadith is good, at the very least, in light of the preceding report. Al-Ḥāfiẓ indicated this by remaining silent about him in al-Fatḥ (11/237). He had been preceded in this