it was recorded by ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad in "Zawāʾid al-Zuhd" (p. 153), and from him by Abū Nuʿaym in "al-Ḥilyah" (6/97), and Abū Manṣūr ibn Ziyād in "al-Arbaʿīn" (f. 196/1) through the route of Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-Asadī: Thawr narrated to us from Khālid ibn Maʿdān from him. This al-Asadī is very weak, and al-Dāraqutnī and Aḥmad even accused him of fabrication, saying in one narration: "His ḥadīths are fabricated." A trustworthy narrator reported it as a statement cut off at Khālid ibn Maʿdān, not going beyond him. Imām Aḥmad said in "al-Zuhd" (384): ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith narrated to us, Thawr ibn Yazīd narrated to me from Khālid ibn Maʿdān, who said: and he mentioned it. I say: This isnād is authentic; all its men are trustworthy, the men of the Ṣaḥīḥ. ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith is Ibn ʿAbd al-Malik al-Makhzūmī, Abū Muḥammad al-Makkī, a trustworthy Makkan from the men of Muslim. There is no contradiction between it and the elevated [narration], due to the difference in the route firstly, and the possibility that the origin of this cut-off [narration] is elevated, but some narrators either shortened it or were not motivated to elevate it. And Allāh knows best.

"Indeed, Allāh has people whom He singles out for blessings for the benefit of others, and He keeps them in those blessings as long as they spend them. But if they withhold them, He takes them away and transfers them to others." It was recorded by Ibn Abī al-Dunyā in "Qaḍāʾ al-Ḥawāʾij" (no. 5), al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Awsaṭ" (5295), Abū Nuʿaym in "al-Ḥilyah" (6/115 and 10/215), and al-Khaṭīb in "al-Tārīkh" (9/459) from Muḥammad ibn Ḥassān al-Samtī, who narrated to us from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zayd al-Ḥimṣī, who narrated to us from al-Awzāʿī, from ʿAbdah ibn Abī Lubābah, from Ibn ʿUmar, in a marfūʿ form. I say: This isnād is weak. Muḥammad ibn Ḥassān al-Samtī is truthful but lenient in ḥadīth, as said by al-Ḥāfiẓ. And ʿAbd Allāh ibn Zayd al-Ḥimṣī, al-Azdī said he is weak