"this is a ḥadīth ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ." Al-Khiraqī also authenticated it. I said: Al-ʿIrāqī narrated it in "al-ʿAsharīyāt" (59/1) from this chain, with the narrator saying: "It is the first ḥadīth I heard from him," then he said: "This is a ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth." Ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Dimashqī also authenticated it in some of his sessions preserved in the Ẓāhirīyah of Damascus, but its pages are disordered. He said: "Abū Qābūs has a corroborator, which we narrated in 'Musnad Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal and ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd' from the ḥadīth of Abū Khudāsh Ḥibbān ibn Zayd al-Sharaʿbī al-Ḥimṣī, one of the trustworthy, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr with the same meaning, and the ḥadīth has a witness from more than twenty Companions, among them Abū Bakr, ʿUmar, ʿUthmān, and ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhum)." I said: Its narrators are trustworthy, the narrators of the two Shaykhs, except for Abū Qābūs, about whom al-Dhahabī said: "unknown." Al-Ḥāfiẓ said: "acceptable." Meaning when corroborated. He has been corroborated as mentioned by Ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn along with the witnesses he referred to. Among them is the ḥadīth of Abū Isḥāq from Abū Ẓabyān from Jarīr in a marfūʿ form with the wording: "Whoever does not show mercy to those on earth will not be shown mercy by the One in the heavens." Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (1/118/2). Al-Mundhirī said in "al-Targhīb" (3/155): "Its isnād is good and strong!"