but in its chain is Saʿīd ibn Salām al-ʿAṭṭār, who is a liar. The narration of Abū Isḥāq from Masrūq from Abū Bakr, which Abū Nuʿaym mentioned, was connected by Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī in "al-Fawāʾid" (1/28) from Hishām ibn ʿAmmār, who reported to us from Abū Muʿāwiyah from Zakarīyā ibn Abī Zāʾidah from him in an abridged form: "Hūd and its sisters have made me old." Its narrators are trustworthy. Ibn Mardawayh also narrated it and added, as in "al-Jāmiʿ": "before old age." Al-Khaṭīb also reported it in "Tārīkh Baghdād" (3/145) through the route of Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn from ʿImrān ibn al-Ḥuṣayn, elevated with it without the addition. I say: Its chain is good. Abū al-Shaykh also reported it in "Aḥādīth" (13/1) through the route of Jabbārah, who reported to us from ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān from Abū Isḥāq from ʿĀmir ibn Saʿd from his father, who said: "I said: O Messenger of Allāh, you have grown old," and he mentioned it. I say: ʿAbd al-Karīm is al-Bajalī al-Kūfī, acceptable according to the ḥāfiẓ. Jabbārah is Ibn Mughlis al-Ḥammānī, and he is weak.

- "When my nation walks with arrogance and its servants are the sons of kings, the sons of Persia and Rome, the wicked among them will be given authority over the righteous." It was reported by Ibn al-Mubārak in "al-Zuhd" (no. 187 - narrated by Nuʿaym) and al-Muʿāfá ibn ʿImrān