I said: This is a good mursal isnād, with reliable narrators who are the narrators of the two Shaykhs [al-Bukhārī and Muslim], except for Abū Sinān, who is Saʿīd ibn Sinān al-Burjamī al-Shaybānī the younger. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said: "He is truthful but has errors." Muslim has also narrated from him. The ḥadīth has a corroborating narration that Abū Muḥammad al-ʿAdl reported in "al-Fawāʾid" (p. 277/1) from ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim, narrated to us by Yaḥyá al-Bakkāʾ, who informed me from Ibn ʿUmar, elevated, with the addition: "after the decline [of the sun]." This isnād is weak; Yaḥyá al-Bakkāʾ, who is Ibn Muslim, is weak as mentioned in "al-Taqrīb." ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim is truthful but makes mistakes. Nevertheless, the ḥadīth is considered good in my view when combining both chains, and Allāh knows best. Then I saw the ḥadīth in "Qiyām al-Layl" by Ibn Naṣr, who reported it (p. 78) from the mentioned source, but he added: from ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb that he heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam). It was also narrated by al-Tirmidhī and al-Khaṭīb in "al-Tārīkh" (1/253) and Ibn al-Jawzī in "Minhāj al-Qāṣidīn" (1/40/1), and they added, "There is nothing except that it glorifies Allāh, the Exalted, at that hour." Al-Tirmidhī said: "It is strange; we do not know it except from the narration of ʿAlī ibn ʿĀṣim."

- "Whoever wishes to maintain the connection with his father in his grave, let him maintain the connection with his father's brothers after him." It was reported by Abū Yaʿlá (3/1361 - microfilm copy) and Ibn Ḥibbān (2031) from Hudbah ibn Khālid, narrated to us by Ḥazm ibn Abī Ḥazm from Thābit al-Bunānī from Abū Burdah, who said: "I came to Medina, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar came to me and said: Do you know why I came to you? I said: No. He said: I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) say (and he mentioned it), and there was a bond of brotherhood and affection between my father, ʿUmar, and your father, so I wished to maintain that."