Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Hamadānī narrated to us from Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī, from Mughīrah, from Ibrāhīm, from al-Aswad, from him. I said: Those below Abū Isḥāq—whose name is Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad, a trustworthy memorizer—I did not recognize them. Al-Suyūṭī attributed it to al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī from Ibn Masʿūd, and al-Manāwī left it unannotated! In summary, the ḥadīth with these supporting narrations is authentic and established because none of its chains contain an accused [narrator], especially since some of them have been deemed good by al-Tirmidhī and others, and Allāh knows best.

"The nations are about to call each other against you just as diners call each other to their dish." Someone said: "Will we be few in number then?" He said: "No, you will be many on that day, but you will be like the froth of the flood, and Allāh will remove the fear of you from the hearts of your enemies and will cast weakness into your hearts." Someone said: "O Messenger of Allāh, what is weakness?" He said: "Love of the world and dislike of death." It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (4297), al-Ruyānī in "Musnad" (25/134/2), and Ibn ʿAsākir in "Tārīkh Dimashq" (8/97/2) through chains from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir who narrated to me from Abū ʿAbd al-Salām from Thawbān who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said it. I said: This isnād is acceptable for supporting narrations, as Ibn Jābir is trustworthy and among the narrators of the "Ṣaḥīḥayn." His teacher Abū ʿAbd al-Salām is unknown, but he did not narrate it alone, as Abū Asmāʾ al-Raḥabī also narrated it from Thawbān. It was recorded by Aḥmad (5/278), Ibn Abī al-Dunyā in "al-ʿUqūbāt" (62/1), Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Makhlad al-Bazzār in "Ḥadīth Ibn al-Sammāk" (182-183), and Abū Nuʿaym in "al-Ḥilyah" (1/182) from al-Mubārak ibn Faḍālah who narrated to us from Marzūq Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥimṣī who informed us from Abū Asmāʾ al-Raḥabī. I said: This isnād is good, its narrators are trustworthy, and al-Mubārak is only feared for tadlīs, but since