- "Indeed, one of the best treatments people use is cupping." It was recorded by Aḥmad (5/9, 15, and 19) and al-Ḥākim (4/208) through various chains from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr from Ḥuṣayn ibn Abī al-Ḥurr from Samurah from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) who said it, and he mentioned it. Al-Ḥākim said: "Authentic according to the criteria of al-Bukhārī and Muslim." Al-Dhahabī agreed with him. I say: This is one of their errors, for Ḥuṣayn, who is Ibn Mālik, was not recorded by al-Bukhārī and Muslim, so it is only authentic. Then al-Ḥākim produced a supporting narration from the ḥadīth of Zayd ibn Abī Unaysah from Muḥammad ibn Qays. Abū al-Ḥakam al-Bajali, who is ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Naʿm, said: "I entered upon Abū Hurayrah (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu) while he was being cupped, and he said to me: O Abū al-Ḥakam, get cupped. He said: I said: I have never been cupped. He said: Abū al-Qāsim (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) informed me that Jibrīl (ʿalayhi al-salām) informed him: 'Cupping is the best treatment people use.'" And he said: "Authentic according to the criteria of al-Bukhārī and Muslim." Al-Dhahabī also agreed with him. I say: There is a consideration here because Muḥammad ibn Qays, who is al-Asadī al-Wālibī al-Kūfī, was only recorded by al-Bukhārī in "al-Adab al-Mufrad," so it is according to the criteria of Muslim alone.

- "Give a ṣāʿ of wheat or barley between two people, or a ṣāʿ of dates or a ṣāʿ of barley for every free person, slave, young, and old." It was recorded by al-Dāraquṭnī (223 and 224) and Aḥmad (5/432) from al-Zuhrī from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Thaʿlabah ibn Ṣaʿīr—or from Thaʿlabah—from his father that the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said it, and he mentioned it. I say: This isnād has trustworthy men, except that there is a difference of opinion regarding the companionship of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Thaʿlabah, but he said in this narration and others: "from his father." So it is musnad, and it was also recorded by al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī in "al-Aḥādīth al-Mukhtārah" as in "Zawāʾid al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr" (Q 9/2)