—Ḥabīb ibn al-Shahīd—and al-Ḥākim said: “The chain of transmission is authentic.” Al-Dhahabī agreed with him.

462 — “A man among those before you suffered a wound, and he could not bear it. So he took a knife and cut his hand with it. His bleeding did not stop until he died. Allah, Exalted is He, said: ‘My servant has sought to pre-empt Me by taking his own life; I have forbidden Paradise to him.’”

Al-Ṭabarānī related it (1/175–176): “ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz narrated to us: Ḥajjāj ibn Minhāl informed us; Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim narrated to us: al-Ḥasan informed us; Jundub ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Bajalī narrated to us,” attributing it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.

I say: Its chain of transmission is authentic and continuous. Al-Bukhārī also related it in his Sahih (2/373): “Muḥammad narrated to us: Ḥajjāj narrated to us: Jarīr, from al-Ḥasan,” with similar wording.

463 — “Apply khalūq (a saffron-based perfume) in place of blood”—that is, on a child’s head on the day the sacrifice is offered on his behalf.

Ibn Ḥibbān related it in his Sahih (1057): “Muḥammad ibn al-Mundhir ibn Saʿīd informed us: Yūsuf ibn Saʿīd narrated to us: Ḥajjāj narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd informed me, from ʿAmrah, from ʿĀʾishah, who said:

“During the pre-Islamic period, when they offered the ʿaqīqah sacrifice for a child, they would dye a piece of cotton with the blood of the ʿaqīqah. Then, when they shaved the child’s head, they would place it upon his head. So the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said”—and he then cited it.

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. All its narrators are trustworthy and included in al-Tahdhīb, apart from Ibn Ḥibbān’s shaykh, Muḥammad ibn al-Mundhir ibn Saʿīd, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Harawī, who was a trustworthy hadith master and whose biographical entry appears