"its isnād is authentic." And al-Dhahabī agreed with him. I said: It is as they said, except that Ḥumayd ibn al-Aswad has been noted by the ḥāfiẓ to "make minor errors." There is a disagreement regarding its isnād. Ibn Abī Fudayk narrated it from al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn ʿUthmān from al-Maqburī from Abū Hurayrah who said: "Ṣafwān ibn al-Muʿaṭṭal asked the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) and said..." the ḥadīth, making it part of the Musnad of Abū Hurayrah, not the Musnad of Ṣafwān. It was recorded by Ibn Mājah (1252) and Ibn Ḥibbān (619). This narration is preferred because Ibn Ḥibbān recorded it (618) through the route of Ibn Wahb from ʿIyāḍ ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qurashī from Saʿīd ibn Abī Saʿīd from Abū Hurayrah with a similar account. This isnād meets the criteria of Muslim, but ʿIyāḍ has some weakness as noted by the ḥāfiẓ, so it is acceptable in follow-ups, and the ḥadīth is authentic when considering both routes. Al-Būṣīrī deemed the route of Ibn Abī Fudayk as ḥasan in "al-Zawāʾid" (p. 98/1, Maktab copy) and attributed it to Ibn Khuzaymah in "Ṣaḥīḥ" through the route of Ibn Wahb. Know that his saying "then leave the prayer until the sun sets" is like his saying (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): "There is no prayer after ʿAṣr until the sun sets." Both are from the general that is specified by the explicit ḥadīths of Anas and ʿAlī on this matter, so refer to them under numbers (200 and 314).

- "When evil becomes apparent on the earth, Allāh sends His punishment upon the people of the earth, even if there are righteous among them; they will be afflicted with what afflicts the people, then they will return to the mercy of Allāh." It was recorded by al-Bayhaqī in "Shuʿab al-Īmān" (2/441/2) through the route of Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah from Jāmiʿ ibn Abī Rāshid from Mundhir al-Thawrī from al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad from ʿĀʾishah as a marfūʿ ḥadīth