but the ḥadīth is authentic as it has been reported from Anas and authenticated by al-Ḥākim and al-Dhahabī, and from Abū Hurayrah and from Bishr ibn Kaʿb. I have documented their ḥadīths in "Aḥkām al-Janāʾiz" (p. 46) and clarified there that the statement some people make after the funeral prayer: "What do you testify about him? Testify to his goodness" is an ugly innovation, and that the ḥadīth does not support it. Refer to it.

- "Read, so-and-so! For tranquility descends for the Qurʾān, or at the Qurʾān." It was recorded by Aḥmad (4/284) who said: ʿAffān narrated to us, Shuʿbah narrated to us from Abū Isḥāq who said: I heard al-Barāʾ say: A man recited Sūrah (al-Kahf) and he had a tied animal, and the animal began to shy away. The man looked at a cloud that had covered him or a mist, and he was frightened, so he went to the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam). I said: Did the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) name that man? He said: Yes. (He said: So he mentioned that to the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam), and he mentioned it. I said: And this isnād is authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs, and it was also recorded by al-Bukhārī (6/458 - Fatḥ) and Muslim (2/193) and Aḥmad (4/281) and Abū Yaʿlá (2/479-480) through other chains from Shuʿbah. And it was recorded by al-Bukhārī in "Tafsīr" (8/450) and in "Faḍāʾil al-Qurʾān" (9/52) and by Muslim and Aḥmad (4/293 and 298) and Ibn Naṣr (p. 97 - al-Atharīyah) through other chains from Abū Isḥāq. al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar did not find al-Bukhārī's chain in "al-Faḍāʾil" in "al-Nukat al-Ẓirāf" (2/42) although he pointed to it in his commentary on the ḥadīth in the indicated place in "Tafsīr." Exalted is He who does not forget. However, I preferred to begin by documenting the ḥadīth from the chain of Shuʿbah rather than the other chains,