The fourth: Hilāl al-Madanī, from him.

It was narrated by Aḥmad (2/499).

This Hilāl is unknown, but the preceding chains establish his narration.

There are several hadiths with the same meaning as this report, narrated from Abū Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, and others. *

3577—“The one who has committed the Quran to memory is like the owner of tethered camels: if he keeps watch over them, he retains them; but if he lets them loose, they go away.”

It was narrated from Ibn ʿUmar, through two routes from him:

The first: from Nāfiʿ.

It was narrated by al-Bukhārī (5031), Muslim (1/190–191), al-Nasāʾī in al-Ṣughrā (2/154) and al-Kubrā (1/327), Ibn Mājah (3783), Ibn Ḥibbān (761 and 762), Mālik (1/202), Ibn Abī Shaybah (2/500 and 10/476), ʿAbd al-Razzāq (5971, 5972, and 6032), Aḥmad (2/17, 24, 30, and 64), al-Bayhaqī (2/395), and al-Baghawī in Sharḥ al-Sunnah (1221), through several chains from him.

The second: from Sālim. It was narrated by ʿAbd al-Razzāq (5972). *

3578—“Those before you were destroyed only because of their disagreement concerning the Book.”

It was narrated by Muslim (7/57), al-Nasāʾī in al-Kubrā (8095), Aḥmad (2/192), and al-Ājurrī in al-Sharīʿah (p. 67), from the hadith of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, who said: