then I found another corroborating narrator for it, recorded by Ibn ʿAsākir in "Tārīkh Dimashq" (5/120/2) through various chains from Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim, who informed us that Abū Zurʿah told us, Abū al-Naḍr informed us, al-Ḥakam ibn Hishām told me, and Hishām ibn ʿUrwah narrated it. I said: This isnād is authentic; all its narrators are trustworthy according to the men of "al-Tahdhīb" except for Aḥmad ibn al-Qāsim, who is al-Tamīmī. Ibn ʿAsākir provided his biography (2/42/2) and narrated from ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kinānī who said about him: "He was trustworthy and reliable." As for al-Ḥakam ibn Hishām and Abū al-Naḍr, whose name is Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Yazīd al-Dimashqī, there are remarks that do not harm [their credibility]. The ḥāfiẓ said about each of them: "Truthful," and added about the second, "weak without basis." Thus, the ḥadīth, with all these corroborations and chains and the ḥadīth of ʿUmar (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu), is authentic without doubt. However, we must know that compatibility is only in religion and character.

- "Standing for an hour in the path of Allāh is better than observing the Night of Decree at the Black Stone." Narrated by ʿAbbās al-Taraqafī in "His Ḥadīth" (41/2), who informed us that Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (meaning ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd al-Muqriʾ) told us, Saʿīd (meaning Ibn Abī Ayyūb) informed us, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Abū al-Aswad narrated from Mujāhid from Abū Hurayrah, who was in the ribāṭ. They were alarmed and went to the coast, then it was said: No harm, so the people returned, and Abū Hurayrah remained standing. A person passed by him and said: What keeps you standing, O Abū Hurayrah? He replied: I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) say: and he mentioned it. Through al-Taraqafī's route, it was narrated by Ibn Ḥibbān (1583) and al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir in "Arbaʿīn al-Jihād" (ḥadīth 18). I said: This isnād is authentic; all its narrators are trustworthy and well-known. Yes, it has been said: