- "Indeed, when Allāh bestows a blessing upon a servant, He loves to see the effect of that blessing on him and dislikes misery and self-imposed hardship. He detests the persistent beggar and loves the modest, chaste, self-sufficient person." It was recorded by al-Bayhaqī in "al-Shuʿab" (2/231/1) and al-Sahmī in "Tārīkh Jurjān" (p. 101) from Ḥātim ibn Yūnus al-Jurjānī, who narrated to us from Ismāʿīl ibn Saʿīd al-Jurjānī, who narrated to us from ʿĪsá ibn Khālid al-Balkhī, who narrated to us from Waraqāʾ from al-Aʿmash from Abū Ṣāliḥ from Abū Hurayrah (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu) who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said it, and he mentioned it, and said: "And in this isnād there is weakness." I say: Its reason is not apparent to me, for Waraqāʾ, who is Ibn ʿUmar al-Yashkurī, and those above him are trustworthy from the narrators of the two Shaykhs, and ʿĪsá ibn Khālid al-Balkhī, it appears, is ʿĪsá ibn Khālid al-Khurāsānī, for he is from this generation. Ibn Abī Ḥātim translated him (3/1/275) and narrated from ʿAmr ibn ʿAlī al-Fallās that he said: And he was trustworthy. And Ismāʿīl ibn Saʿīd al-Jurjānī is al-Shālanjī al-Ṭabarī. Ibn Abī Ḥātim translated him (1/1/174) and narrated from Imām Aḥmad that he said: "May Allāh have mercy on Abū Isḥāq, he was in a position of Islam, he was among the people of knowledge and virtue." Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī said: "He was the most trustworthy of those from whom I wrote, except for a little of that." Al-Sahmī translated him well, and in it, he mentioned the ḥadīth and said: "It is said that this ḥadīth was uniquely narrated by Ismāʿīl ibn Saʿīd al-Shālanjī with this isnād." I say: He was followed by Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Jarīr, who narrated to us from ʿĪsá ibn Khālid with it. It was recorded by Abū al-Shaykh in "Ṭabaqāt al-Aṣbahāniyyīn" (166/1) and Abū Nuʿaym in "Akhbār Aṣbahān" (1/78) in the biography of this Ibn Jarīr and he was deemed trustworthy. And it is an authentic ḥadīth, with supporting evidences affirming its authenticity, of which I mention the most important here. Al-Ṭabarānī narrated (no. 5308) and al-Ḍiyāʾ in "al-Mukhtārah" from Zuhayr ibn Abī ʿAlqamah al-Ḍubʿī who said: