"a ḥadīth that is ḥasan gharīb," and it was authenticated by Ibn Ḥibbān (1850). I said: There is weakness in its chain as I have clarified in "Takhrīj al-Mishkāt" (5144). The second: from Abū Hurayrah, raised [to the Prophet] in his ḥadīth: "On that day, the one who holds firmly to his religion is like one holding onto hot coals." It was recorded by Aḥmad (5/390-391), Abū ʿAmr ibn Mandah in "Aḥādīth" (Q18/2), and Ibn ʿAsākir in "Tārīkh Dimashq" (19/252/2) through various chains from Ibn Lahīʿah from Abū Yūnus from him. I said: Its isnād is acceptable in supporting narrations; its narrators are trustworthy except for Ibn Lahīʿah, who has poor memory. The third: from Ibn Masʿūd, raised [to the Prophet] with the wording: "A time will come upon the people when the one who holds firmly to my sunnah amidst the differences in my ummah is like one holding onto hot coals." It was recorded by Abū Bakr al-Kalābādhī in "Miftāḥ al-Maʿānī" (Q188/2) and al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī in "al-Muntaqá min Masmūʿātihi bi-Marw" (99/1) through two chains from Ḥumayd ibn ʿAlī al-Bakhtarī who narrated to us