“and offer the salam as you have already been taught.” Al-Tahawi records it (3/75) with the chain: Salih b. Abd al-Rahman and Fahd—both from al-Qanabi—who said: Dawud b. Qays narrated to us from Nuaym b. Abd Allah al-Mujmir, from Abu Hurayra. It is also cited by Ahmad b. Shuayb al-Nasa i (in al-Amal, 159/47) through Hajib b. Sulayman, from Ibn Abi Fudayk, from Dawud b. Qays with the same wording. This chain is sound according to Muslim’s criteria. Muhammad b. Ishaq al-Sarraj likewise transmitted it from al-Qanabi (Abd Allah b. Maslama b. Qanab); he said: “Abu Yahya and Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Barti informed us, saying: Abd Allah b. Maslama b. Qanab narrated it to us.” Abd al-Wahhab b. Munda conveyed it from al-Khafaf on the authority of the same narrator. I have taken this enumeration from Al-Jala (pp. 14–15), where its author concludes: “This isnad is sound according to the criteria of the Two Shaykhs.” I would qualify that: while Dawud b. Qays is unanimously reliable, al-Bukhari cites him only in suspended form, so the correct ruling is that the chain meets Muslim’s standards, not those of both Shaykhs. The hadith refutes Ibn al-Qayyim, for it explicitly combines the phrases “Ibrahim” and “Al Ibrahim,” a wording he, following his teacher, denied to be authentic. We have already answered him at length; here we simply draw attention to the point. Moreover, the report has another route from al-Mujmir: Abu Dawud (1/155), and through him al-Bayhaqi (2/151), narrate it from Hibban b. Yasar al-Kilabi, who said: “Abu Mutarrif Ubayd Allah b. Talha b. Ubayd Allah b. Kurayz related it to me, saying: Muhammad b. Ali told me …”