the Ḥimṣī is a reliable narrator from the two Shaykhs, and those above him are reliable narrators from Muslim, except for Rāshid ibn Saʿd. Despite not being among Muslim's narrators—though he is reliable—he is a follower, so the chain through ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jubayr—who is Ibn Nufayr—is authentic according to Muslim's criteria. The reason for clarifying this is that I saw al-Mundhirī mentioned in his extraction of the ḥadīth from his book "al-Targhīb" (3/300): "It was narrated by Abū Dāwūd, and he mentioned that some narrated it as mursal." I feared that someone without knowledge of this ḥadīth's isnād might mistakenly think that the narration of some as mursal weakens the ḥadīth. Therefore, I wanted to clarify that this "some" is only Baqiyyah and that the narrators from him did not agree on narrating it as mursal; rather, most narrate it as connected, which is correct as it agrees with the narration of Abū al-Mughīrah, which was undisputed. And Allāh is the one who grants success. Then the ḥadīth was also narrated by Ibn Abī al-Dunyā in "al-Ṣamt" (4/34/1): Ḥusayn ibn Mahdī narrated to us, ʿAbd al-Quddūs Abū al-Mughīrah narrated it.

"Most of the sins of the son of Adam are in his tongue." It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī (3/78/1-2), Abū al-Shaykh in "Aḥādīth" (10/2), and Ibn ʿAsākir (15/389/1) through the route of Abū Bakr al-Nahshalī from al-Aʿmash from Shaqīq who said: "ʿAbd Allāh (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu) called out on al-Ṣafā, then said: 'O tongue, say good and you will gain, be silent and you will be safe before you regret.' They said: 'O Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, is this something you say or did you hear it?' He said: 'No, rather I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) say it.'" So he mentioned it. I said: This isnād is good and it is according to Muslim's criteria. Al-Mundhirī said in "al-Targhīb" (4/8): "It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī and its narrators are those of the authentic collections, and Abū al-Shaykh in 'al-Thawāb' and al-Bayhaqī with a good isnād."