and sincere counsel to those in authority, and adherence to the Muslim community; for its supplication encompasses all those within it.” He also said: “Whoever makes the Hereafter his chief concern, Allah will bring his affairs together and place contentment in his heart; and this world will come to him humbled. But whoever intends this world, Allah will scatter his affairs, place poverty before his eyes, and nothing of this world will come to him except what has been decreed for him.”

Ahmad (5/183) narrated it—the wording being his—as did al-Darimi (1/75), Ibn Hibban (72, 73—Mawarid), and Ibn Abd al-Barr in al-Jami' (1/38–39), through Shu'bah, who said: Umar ibn Sulayman, a descendant of Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, narrated to us from Abd al-Rahman ibn Aban ibn Uthman, from his father: Zayd ibn Thabit left Marwan’s presence at about midday, so we said, “He could only have summoned him at this hour to ask him about something.” I went over to him and asked him, and he said: “Yes, he asked us about matters that we had heard from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say,” and he then cited it.

This is an authentic chain of transmission; all its narrators are trustworthy. Ibn Majah (2/524–525) also narrated its latter half through this route. Al-Busiri said in al-Zawa'id (252/1): “This is an authentic chain of transmission, and its narrators are trustworthy. Abu Dawud al-Tayalisi narrated it from Shu'bah in similar wording, and al-Tabarani narrated it with an acceptable chain of transmission.”

405 — “Do not revile Waraqah, for I saw that he has one or two gardens in Paradise.”

Al-Hakim (2/609) narrated it through Abu Sa'id al-Ashajj, who said: Abu Mu'awiyah narrated to us from Hisham ibn Urwah, from his father, from Aishah, may Allah be pleased with her, as a report attributed to the Prophet.