Israel also corroborated him, narrating from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, from Muṣʿab ibn Saʿd and ʿAmr ibn Maymūn al-Awdī, who said: Saʿd would ... etc.

Al-Nasāʾī recorded it (2/316).

Shaybān corroborated both of them, narrating from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr, from the two of them, with the same report.

Ibn Khuzaymah recorded it in his Ṣaḥīḥ (1/367/746), as did Ibn Ḥibbān (2022). ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAmr al-Kūfī likewise corroborated them, narrating it from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr.

Al-Nasāʾī recorded it (8/266), as did al-Tirmidhī (3567), who said:

“This is a good, authentic hadith through this route.”

In al-Nasāʾī’s chain, the addition of Israel occurs between ʿAbd Allāh and ʿAbd al-Malik; this is an error.

Note: The wording transmitted by Shuʿbah in Musnad al-Shāshī differs in some of its passages. One such difference is that, in place of “the trials of worldly life,” there occurs: “the trial of the False Messiah, the Dajjāl.” This is an error on the part of al-Shāshī’s teacher, Abū Qilābah ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad.

Likewise, the word “worldly life” in the hadith was corrupted by some hadith scholars into “women.” I have explained this in al-Ḍaʿīfah (The Weak Hadiths) (7050) with details that you will not find elsewhere; praise be to Allah.

3938—“The deed that brings one nearest to Allah, the Most High, is jihad in the cause of Allah, and nothing comes close to it—[except one who is like this,” and the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, pointed to a person who never slackens in prayer and fasting].”

Al-Bukhārī recorded it in al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr (The Major History) (2/2/152) through the route of Sālim ibn Ghaylān,