"May Allāh curse the scorpion, it does not spare a praying person or anyone else." Then he called for water and salt and began to rub it on [the sting] while reciting *Say, "O disbelievers"* and *Say, "I seek refuge in the Lord of daybreak"* and *Say, "I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind"*. It was recorded by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Ṣaghīr" (p. 117), Abū Nuʿaym in "Akhbār Aṣbahān" (2/223), and Abū Muḥammad al-Khallāl in "Faḍāʾil Qul Huwa Allāhu Aḥad" (p. 202/1) through various chains from Muḥammad ibn Faḍīl, from Muṭarrif, from al-Minhāl ibn ʿAmr, from Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah, from ʿAlī who said: "The Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) was stung by a scorpion while he was praying, and when he finished, he said..." It was mentioned, and al-Ṭabarānī said: "No one narrated it from Muṭarrif except Ibn Faḍīl." I say: He is trustworthy among the narrators of the two Shaykhs [al-Bukhārī and Muslim], and so are those above him, except that al-Minhāl was not narrated by Muslim. It was also recorded by Ibn Abī Shaybah in "al-Muṣannaf" (12/152/2): ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn Sulaymān informed us from Muṭarrif with it, except that he did not mention ʿAlī in its isnād, which does not harm the connected chain as it is established that the addition of a trustworthy narrator is accepted, especially since the ḥadīth has a witness from the ḥadīth of ʿAbdullāh ibn Masʿūd similar to it, in which it is stated: "Then he ordered salt to be thrown into water, and he put his hand in it, turning it over where he was stung and reciting..." However, it does not mention *Say, "O disbelievers"*. It was recorded by Ibn ʿAdī in "al-Kāmil" (p. 83/1) with a weak chain.

"Shall I not inform you of the believer? It is the one whom people trust with their wealth and lives. The Muslim is the one from whose tongue and hand people are safe. The mujāhid is the one who strives against his own self in obedience to Allāh. The muhājir is the one who abandons sins and transgressions." It was recorded by Imām Aḥmad (6/21): ʿAlī ibn Isḥāq narrated to us, saying: ʿAbdullāh informed us, saying: Layth informed us