"a ḥadīth that is ḥasan gharīb from the narration of Abū Isḥāq from al-Barāʾ, and it has been narrated from al-Barāʾ through various routes. Al-Ajlah is Ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥujayyah ibn ʿAdī al-Kindī." I said: There is a difference of opinion about him, and he is considered reliable in ḥadīth, if Allāh wills. However, his teacher Abū Isḥāq, who is ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Sabīʿī, had become confused, and I do not know whether he heard from him before or after his confusion. Moreover, he is known to practice tadlīs and has narrated with ʿanʿanah. Among the routes to which al-Tirmidhī referred is what Aḥmad recorded (4/289) from the route of Mālik from Abū Dāwūd, who said: "I met al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib, and he greeted me, took my hand, and smiled at me. He said: 'Do you know why I did this to you?' I said: 'I do not know, but I think you did it for a good reason.' He said: 'The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) met me and did to me what I did to you, and he asked me, and I said to him what you said to me.' He said: 'Whenever two Muslims meet, and one greets the other and takes his hand, doing so only for the sake of Allāh, they do not separate until they are forgiven.'" However, it is a very weak isnād. Abū Dāwūd, who is the blind man named Nufayʿ, is abandoned, as al-Ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Taqrīb," and it was critiqued by al-Mundhirī in "al-Targhīb" (3/270), then by al-Haythamī in "al-Majmaʿ" (8/37), who attributed it only to al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Awsaṭ"! Another route is what is with Aḥmad (4/293) from the route of Zuhayr from Abū Balj Yaḥyá ibn Abī Sulaym, who said: Abū al-Ḥakam narrated to us from al-Baṣrī from Abū Baḥr from al-Barāʾ that the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: "Whenever two Muslims meet, and one takes the hand of the other, then praises Allāh, they separate with no sin between them." Ibn Abī Ḥātim said about his father (2/274):