- "The most disgraceful name in the sight of Allāh on the Day of Resurrection is a man who calls himself the king of kings." It was recorded by Aḥmad (2/244) and al-Ḥumaydī (1127), who said: Sufyān narrated to us from Abū al-Zinād al-Aʿraj from Abū Hurayrah from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): and he mentioned it. It was also recorded by Muslim (6/174) and Abū Dāwūd (2/309) through the path of Aḥmad, and al-Ḥākim (4/274) through the path of al-Ḥumaydī, who said: "Authentic according to the criteria of al-Shaykhayn, but they did not include it." Al-Dhahabī refuted this by saying that they did include it, and he was correct, for it was recorded by al-Bukhārī (10/485-486) and also by Muslim and al-Tirmidhī (4/29) through other paths from Sufyān with it, and al-Tirmidhī said: "A good and authentic ḥadīth." I say: Muslim added in a narration: "There is no king except Allāh." There is another path for the ḥadīth from Abū Hurayrah, raised [to the Prophet] with the wording: "The most enraging man to Allāh on the Day of Resurrection, the most wicked and the most enraging to Him, is a man who was called the king of kings; there is no king except Allāh." It was recorded by Muslim and Aḥmad (2/315) through the path of Hammām ibn Munabbih, who narrated to us from Abū Hurayrah from the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) and he mentioned it. (Note) Al-Suyūṭī included the ḥadīth with the first wording in "al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr" correctly from the narration of al-Shaykhayn, Abū Dāwūd, and al-Tirmidhī, then he included it in "Ziyādah al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr" (8/1) from the narration of Abū Dāwūd with the wording: "The most embarrassing name..." as if it was miscopied by him or by some of the scribes of "Abū Dāwūd," and then al-Suyūṭī did not notice it, so he included it in "al-Ziyādah," and the author of "al-Fatḥ al-Kabīr fī Ḍamm al-Ziyādah ilá al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr" followed him in that!