"Whoever mentions a person with what is in him has backbitten him, and whoever mentions him with what is not in him has slandered him." Narrated by Abū al-Shaykh in "al-Ṭabaqāt" (p. 34) from Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Maryam from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Maryam from Abū Ṣāliḥ from Abū Hurayrah from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) similarly. I say: This isnād is weak. This Abū Bakr, who is al-Ghassānī al-Shāmī, is weak. And ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Maryam is unknown as the ḥāfiẓ said, but he was not alone in narrating it, for it was also narrated by al-ʿAlāʾ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān from his father from Abū Hurayrah. "The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: Do you know what backbiting is? They said: Allāh and His Messenger know best. He said: It is to mention your brother with what he dislikes. It was said: What if there is in my brother what I say? He said: If what you say is in him, you have backbitten him, and if it is not in him, you have slandered him." Narrated by Muslim (8/21), al-Tirmidhī (1/351-352) who said it is a ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth, al-Dārimī (2/299), and Aḥmad (2/230, 384, 386, 458) from various routes from him. The ḥadīth was also narrated by Abū Nuʿaym in "Akhbār Aṣbahān" (2/45) from the route of Ibn Jurayj from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Maryam with it. And he said: "It was narrated by Rūḥ ibn ʿUbādah and Abū ʿĀṣim from Ibn Jurayj from Abū Bakr ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Maryam from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Maryam similarly. And it was narrated by Hishām ibn Yūsuf from Abū Bakr ibn Abī Sabrah from Muslim ibn Abī Maryam from Abū Ṣāliḥ similarly."

- "The chief fragrance of the people of Paradise is henna." Narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" and from him by ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Maqdisī in "al-Sunan" (184/2) from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal who said: My father narrated to me, may Allāh have mercy on him, that Muʿādh ibn Hishām narrated to us: My father narrated to me from Qatādah from Abū Ayyūb from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr in a marfūʿ manner, and al-Maqdisī said: