Musʿab ibn Thabit, from Abu Hazim, from Sahl ibn Saʿd, in a hadith attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with this wording.

Al-Haythami cited it in two places in al-Majmaʿ (8/87 and 10/273), with the wording: “The believer is affable and is befriended, and there is no...”

In the first of the two places, he said: “Ahmad and al-Tabarani narrated it. Its chain contains Musʿab ibn Thabit, whom Ibn Hibban and others deemed trustworthy, while Ibn Maʿin and others declared him weak; the rest of its narrators are trustworthy.”

In the other, he said: “Ahmad and al-Tabarani narrated it, and its chain is good.”

That is what he said. In al-Taqrib it states: “Musʿab ibn Thabit was somewhat weak in hadith, though he was a devout worshipper.”

I say: His chain of transmission was contradicted. After citing it, al-Khatib said: “Khalid ibn Waddah narrated it from Abu Hazim, from Abu Salih, from Abu Hurayrah, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.”

Al-Khatib provided its connected chain (8/288–289), saying: Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Qurashi informed us; ʿUmar ibn Ahmad al-Waʿiz informed us; al-Hurr ibn Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn Ishkab narrated to us; al-Zubayr ibn Bakkar narrated to us; Khalid ibn Waddah narrated it to us through this chain.

I have found no biographical notice for this Khalid, but all the other narrators are trustworthy. As for Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, al-Khatib said (2/349): “We wrote from him, and he was truthful.”

ʿUmar ibn Ahmad al-Waʿiz is the one known as Ibn Shahin. Al-Khatib also said (11/265): “He was trustworthy and reliable.” Muhammad ibn Abi al-Fawaris said: “Ibn Shahin was trustworthy and dependable; he had