“Are we to be held accountable for what our tongues utter?” The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, then struck Mu‘adh’s thigh and repeated it.

Al-Hakim said: “Authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs.” Al-Dhahabi agreed with him.

I say: No; rather, it is merely authentic, for al-Rabi‘ ibn Sulayman and ‘Amr ibn Malik al-Junbi were not included by either of the two Shaykhs. Al-Bukhari only included al-Junbi in al-Adab al-Mufrad; likewise, he included Abu Hani’, whose name was Humayd ibn Hani’. He was among Muslim’s narrators only.

Al-Haythami cited the hadith in its full wording (10/299) and said: “Al-Tabarani narrated it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih, apart from ‘Amr ibn Malik al-Junbi, who is trustworthy.”

413 — “When you see Allah giving a servant, despite his sins, what he loves of this worldly life, then it is only a gradual entrapment.” Then he recited:

“When they had forgotten what they had been reminded of, We opened for them the gates of everything; then, as they rejoiced in what they had been given, We seized them suddenly, and they were left in utter despair.”

Ahmad (4/145) narrated it through Rushdayn ibn Sa‘d; Ibn Jarir, in al-Tafsir (7/115), through Abu al-Salt; and al-Dulabi, in al-Kuna (1/111), through Hajjaj ibn Sulayman al-Ru‘ayni. All three narrated from Harmalah ibn ‘Imran al-Tujibi, from ‘Uqbah ibn Muslim, from ‘Uqbah ibn ‘Amir, attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.