Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal: My father told me, saying: Ibn al-Ashjaʿī gave us his father's book from Sufyān from al-Miqdām ibn Shurayḥ from his grandfather, who said: "I said: O Messenger of Allāh, guide me to an action that will admit me to Paradise. He said: ..." and he mentioned it. It was also narrated by al-Qaḍāʿī (p. 94/2) through the same route from Aḥmad. I say: This is a sound chain of narration; all its men are trustworthy. Ibn al-Ashjaʿī is Abū ʿUbaydah ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, a group of trustworthy narrators reported from him, and Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt" and named him ʿAbbād, and al-Ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Taqrīb": "Acceptable." Meaning when corroborated, but Aḥmad's narration here from his father's book is a good find, so it does not weaken the ḥadīth that his son Abū ʿUbaydah handed it to him, especially since the heart inclines to strengthen his ḥadīth as long as those trustworthy narrators, including Imām Aḥmad, have narrated from him, in addition to Ibn Ḥibbān's authentication of him. Al-Mināwī made a gross error in this, as he quoted from al-Haythamī, after attributing it to al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Kabīr," that he said: "In it is Abū ʿUbaydah ibn ʿAbd Allāh (1) al-Ashjaʿī, Aḥmad narrated from him, and no one weakened him, and the rest of its men are the men of the authentic collections." Al-Mināwī criticized this by saying: "This is an oversight, for this al-Ashjaʿī is among the men of the two Ṣaḥīḥs." The one who was actually mistaken is al-Mināwī himself, for this Abū ʿUbaydah was not included by any of the six except Abū Dāwūd. Yes, his father is among the men of "the two Ṣaḥīḥs," so it seems al-Mināwī confused one with the other. Then he said: "Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-ʿIrāqī said: It was narrated by Ibn Abī Shaybah, al-Ṭabarānī, al-Kharāʾiṭī, and al-Bayhaqī from the ḥadīth of Hāniʾ ibn Yazīd with a good isnād." And Hāniʾ ibn Yazīd is the grandfather of al-Miqdām ibn Shurayḥ.

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