354 — “Avoid everything for which an apology must be made.”

Al-Ḍiyāʾ transmitted it in al-Mukhtārah (131/1), through ʿAmr ibn al-Ḍaḥḥāk: my father, al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Makhlad, narrated to us; Shabīb ibn Bishr informed us, from Anas ibn Mālik, attributed to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.

I say: This is a good chain of transmission; its narrators are trustworthy, and there is some criticism concerning Shabīb which is not detrimental. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Taqrīb: “Truthful, but makes mistakes.”

Al-Manāwī said: “Al-Daylamī also transmitted it from Anas in Musnad al-Firdaws, and its chain is good. Al-Ḥākim transmitted it in al-Mustadrak from the hadith of Saʿd, and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Awsaṭ from the hadiths of Ibn ʿUmar and Jābir.”

I say: In the hadith of Jābir is Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥumayd, whose weakness is unanimously agreed upon, as stated in al-Majmaʿ (10/248).

355 — “The believer is like a bee: it eats only what is wholesome and produces only what is wholesome.”

Ibn Ḥibbān (no. 30) and Ibn ʿAsākir (2/43/1) transmitted it through Muʾammal ibn Ismāʿīl, who said: Shuʿbah narrated to us, from Yaʿlā ibn ʿAṭāʾ, from Wakīʿ ibn ʿAdas, from his uncle Abū Razīn, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said:

Then Ibn ʿAsākir narrated, through his chain, from Hārūn al-Ḥammāl, who said: