- "When a servant marries, he has completed half of his religion, so let him fear Allāh regarding the remaining half." It was recorded by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ" (1/162/1) through the chain of ʿIṣmah ibn al-Mutawakkil, who reported from Zāfir ibn Sulaymān, from Isrāʾīl ibn Yūnus, from Jābir, from Yazīd al-Raqāshī, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said it, and he mentioned: "No one narrated it from Zāfir except ʿIṣmah." I said: Both of them are weak, and above them are two other weak narrators: Jābir, who is Ibn Yazīd al-Juʿfī, and Yazīd al-Raqāshī, with Jābir being weaker than him. However, he was not alone in narrating it from him, as al-Ṭabarānī also recorded it through the chain of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ: Ḥasan ibn Khalīl ibn Murrah narrated to me from his father, from Yazīd al-Raqāshī. I said: This chain is a series of weak narrators: 1 - ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ, the scribe of al-Layth al-Miṣrī, is weak and negligent. 2 - Ḥasan ibn Khalīl ibn Murrah, I did not find a biography for him, and it is mentioned in his father's biography in "al-Tahdhīb" that his son ʿAlī ibn Khalīl ibn Murrah narrated from him, and I did not find a biography for him either. 3 - Khalīl ibn Murrah is weak as mentioned in "al-Taqrīb." 4 - Yazīd al-Raqāshī, who is Ibn Abān, is also weak. It has been narrated from him through another chain better than this one from Khalīl. It was recorded by al-Khaṭīb in "al-Mawḍiḥ" (2/84) from Yaʿqūb ibn Isḥāq al-Ḥaḍramī, who reported from Khalīl ibn Murrah. I said: The chain to Khalīl is authentic, and even though he is weak as we mentioned, that is not