Al-Bukhārī also narrated it in al-Adab al-Mufrad (125), attributed to ʿĀʾishah herself: Saʿīd ibn Talīd narrated to us; Ibn Wahb narrated to us; Jābir ibn Ismāʿīl and others narrated to me, from ʿUqayl, from Ibn Shihāb, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah, who used to say: “Some poetry is good and some is vile. Take what is good and leave what is vile. I have transmitted poems by Kaʿb ibn Mālik, including an ode of forty lines and others shorter than that.”

Al-Ḥāfiẓ said: “Its chain is good. Abū Yaʿlā also narrated its opening part from her through another route, attributed to the Prophet.”

I say: The narrators in al-Bukhārī’s chain are reliable and are among the narrators of Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, except for Jābir ibn Ismāʿīl, who is among the narrators of Muslim. However, Ibn Wahb alone narrated from him, and Ibn Ḥibbān declared him trustworthy, as stated in al-Khulāṣah. Others also corroborated him, as Ibn Wahb explicitly indicated, even though that other narrator is unknown to us. Thus, the chain is good, as al-Ḥāfiẓ said, Allah Most High willing.

Then, praise be to Allah, I came across Abū Yaʿlā’s chain and found it to be good. He said in his Musnad (3/1167, al-Maktab al-Islāmī facsimile edition): ʿAbbād ibn Mūsā al-Khutallī narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Thābit informed us, from Hishām, from his father, from her.

This is a good chain. Its narrators are reliable and appear in the two Ṣaḥīḥ collections, apart from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Thābit—namely, Ibn Thawbān al-ʿAnsī al-Dimashqī. You have already learned his status from al-Ḥāfiẓ’s preceding remarks, and al-Tirmidhī graded one of his reports good. Thus, on the strength of its two routes together, the hadith is authentic. And Allah knows best.

448 — “No servant has been granted anything better or more ample than patience.”

Al-Ḥākim narrated it (2/414) through Isḥāq ibn Sulaymān al-Rāzī, who said: I heard Mālik ibn Anas recite the words of Allah, Most High:

“And We made among them leaders, guiding by Our command, when”