"the best thing with which you can change gray hair is henna and katam." It was recorded by al-Nasāʾī (2/278 and 279). Abū Isḥāq is ʿAmr ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Sabīʿī, and he is trustworthy but a mudallis, and he had become confused. Therefore, he is acceptable in supporting narrations, except from the narration of Sufyān al-Thawrī and Shuʿbah, for their ḥadīth from him is a proof.

"The Hour is near, and people will only increase in their eagerness for the world, and they will only increase in their distance from Allāh." It was recorded by al-Ḥākim (4/324), as well as al-Dūlābī in "al-Kuná" (1/155), al-Mukhlis in "al-Fawāʾid al-Muntaqāh" (1/38/2), Ibn Abī al-Dunyā in "al-ʿUqūbāt" (78/1), al-Haytham ibn Kulayb in "Musnad" (folio 84/2), al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (9787), Abū Nuʿaym in "al-Ḥilyah" (7/242 and 8/315), and al-Qaḍāʿī in "Musnad al-Shihāb" (49/2) through the route of Makhlad ibn Yazīd from Bashīr ibn Salmān from Sayyār Abū al-Ḥakam from Ṭāriq ibn Shihāb from Ibn Masʿūd with an elevated chain. Al-Ḥākim said: "Its chain is authentic." And it is as he said, or close to it, for there is slight criticism regarding Makhlad ibn Yazīd. However, it occurred with him as "Bashīr ibn Zādhān," and for this reason, al-Dhahabī criticized it by saying: "I say: This is objectionable, and Bashīr was weakened by al-Dāraqutnī, and Ibn al-Jawzī accused him." I say: This is not Bashīr ibn Salmān; this one is weak, and that one is trustworthy among the men of Muslim, and he is the narrator of this ḥadīth as it appears in the mentioned sources, so do not be misled by the aforementioned criticism of al-Dhahabī nor by al-Manāwī's following him with his statement after it: "How can it be authentic?!"