And he said: “Authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs.” Al-Dhahabi concurred with him, and it is as they said.

406 — “He used to remember Allah at all times.”

Muslim (1/194), Abu Dawud (1/4), al-Tirmidhi (2/244, Bulaq edition), Ibn Majah (1/129), Abu Awanah likewise in his Sahih (1/217), al-Bayhaqi (1/90), and Ahmad (6/70, 153) narrated it through Yahya ibn Zakariyya ibn Abi Za'idah, from his father, from Khalid ibn Salamah, from Abdullah al-Bahi, from Urwah, from Aishah, in a report attributed to the Prophet.

Al-Tirmidhi said: “A good, singular hadith; we know it only through the hadith of Yahya ibn Zakariyya ibn Abi Za'idah.”

I say: Rather, he was corroborated by al-Walid ibn al-Qasim ibn al-Walid al-Hamdani, who is trustworthy and whose hadith are good when he does not contradict others.