(2/493) in this context, but he said: "greater in reward" instead of "better." As for al-Tirmidhī, his wording is "Indeed, the Muslim, when he interacts with..." and the rest is similar except he said: "... than the Muslim who..." Second: al-Tirmidhī reported it (3/319) through the chain of Shuʿbah from Sulaimān al-Aʿmash from Yaḥyá ibn Wathāb from an elder among the Companions of the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam), whom he thought narrated from the Prophet, and he mentioned it. Ibn ʿAdī said afterward: "Shuʿbah thought he was Ibn ʿUmar." Third: its isnād with Ibn Mājah is not ḥasan, as he said: "ʿAlī ibn Maimūn al-Raqī narrated to us, ʿAbd al-Wāḥid ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to us, Isḥāq ibn Yūsuf narrated from al-Aʿmash from Yaḥyá ibn Wathāb from Ibn ʿUmar." And this ʿAbd al-Wāḥid is only known in this isnād with this ḥadīth, and no one narrated from him except ʿAlī ibn Maimūn al-Raqī, as al-Dhahabī said, indicating that he is unknown, and this was explicitly stated by al-Ḥāfiẓ in "al-Taqrīb." However, he was not alone in this, for I have seen that al-Tirmidhī also reported it through the chain of Shuʿbah from al-Aʿmash, and likewise, al-Bukhārī reported it in "al-Adab al-Mufrad" (388), with the exact wording that al-Ḥāfiẓ attributed to Ibn Mājah! Aḥmad (5022) narrated it from this chain with both wordings, the wording of al-Bukhārī and the wording of Ibn Mājah, and its isnād is like that of al-Tirmidhī. He said in it: "from an elder among the Companions of the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam), he said: and I think it was Ibn ʿUmar, Ḥajjāj said: Shuʿbah said Sulaimān, and he is Ibn ʿUmar." This difference in the isnād and text of the ḥadīth does not affect its validity because it is not substantial, whether the Companion of the ḥadīth is named or not, and whether the wording is "greater in reward" or "better," the isnād is ṣaḥīḥ, all of them are trustworthy from the men of the two Shaykhs. Then Aḥmad reported it (5/365) from Sufyān ibn Saʿīd al-Aʿmash with it like the narration of Shuʿbah at Aḥmad and with the wording of Ibn Mājah, and Ibn al-Jawzī reported it in "Jāmiʿ al-Masānīd" (65/1 al-Maḥmūdiyyah)