“Lo! Prostrate yourselves,” that is, “O people, prostrate yourselves,” according to the recitation in which it is read without gemination.
- “When a servant commits fornication, faith departs from him and becomes like a canopy; then, when he gives it up, faith returns to him.”
Abu Dawud (4690) and al-Hakim (1/22) narrated it through the route of Sa‘id ibn Abi Maryam: Nafi‘ ibn Yazid informed us; Ibn al-Had narrated to us that Sa‘id ibn Abi Sa‘id narrated to us that he heard Abu Hurayrah say: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said it.
Al-Hakim said: “Authentic according to the conditions of the two Shaykhs.” Al-Dhahabi agreed with him, and it is as they said, except with regard to Nafi‘: al-Bukhari only cited him in suspended form. Thus, it meets the condition of Muslim alone.
Al-Hakim then narrated it through another route from Abu Hurayrah with the wording: “Whoever commits fornication or drinks wine, Allah strips faith from him as a person removes his shirt over his head.” However, its chain of transmission is weak; its explanation has been given in The Weak Series (1274). Al-Mundhiri also attributed the hadith to al-Tirmidhi in At-Targhib (3/191). This was due to his leniency, for al-Tirmidhi records it (2/104) in suspended form, without a chain of transmission.
- “Whoever Allah protects from the evil of what lies between his jaws and the evil of what lies between his legs will enter Paradise.”
Al-Tirmidhi (2/66) narrated it through the route of Ibn ‘Ajlan, from Abu Hazim, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said it.
He said: “This is a good, singular hadith. Abu Hazim’s name was Salman, the freedman of ‘Izzah al-Ashja‘iyyah.”
I say: He was trustworthy, and his reports are relied upon in the two Sahihs, as are those of all the other narrators, except Ibn ‘Ajlan,