salamah from Abū Hurayrah from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam), and it is said from Yaḥyá from Abū Salamah from his father, and the ḥadīth is well-known as being mursal. I said: then he narrated it from the path of Maʿmar from Yaḥyá ibn Abī Kathīr, he narrates it saying: "Three things, whoever possesses them will see their consequences before his death - and he mentioned them, and among the last of them - the false oath that leaves the homes desolate." I said: and this is a connected ḥadīth with a sound isnād. Then it was narrated from the path of Abū al-ʿAlāʾ from Makhūl who said: the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: "The quickest reward for good is maintaining family ties, and the quickest punishment for evil is oppression, and the false oath leaves the homes desolate." I said: and this is a mursal ḥadīth with a sound isnād. The narration of ʿAlī ibn Ẓabiyān was connected by al-Quḍāʿī in "Musnad al-Shihāb" (16/1). The narration of Yaḥyá ibn Abī Kathīr from Abū Salamah from his father was connected by al-Kharāʾiṭī in "Makārim al-Akhlāq" (p. 45) from the path of Ibn ʿAlāthah from Hishām ibn Ḥassān from him, elevated with the wording: "The quickest reward for obedience is maintaining family ties, so much so that the people of a household may be sinners, yet their wealth grows and their numbers increase if they maintain family ties." And Ibn ʿAlāthah is truthful but makes mistakes as in "al-Taqrīb," but it seems he was not alone in this, for al-Mundhirī said in "al-Targhīb" (3/47) mentioning it with the wording: "The false oath destroys wealth or takes away wealth": "It was narrated by al-Bazzār and its isnād is sound if the hearing of Abū Salamah from his father ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf is confirmed." And something similar is in "al-Majmaʿ" (4/179). And there is another path for the ḥadīth from Abū Hurayrah, elevated with a more complete wording: