I said: this generalization is due to his errors or leniency, for you have known the statement of the ḥāfiẓ regarding Jaʿfar ibn Abī al-Mughīrah, and Ibn Mandah said: "He is not strong in [narrating from] Saʿīd ibn Jubayr." And this is from his narration from him as you see, and someone more reliable than him has contradicted him as previously mentioned. However, he cited it after him with a similar narration from Ibn ʿAbbās and said: "It was narrated by al-Bazzār from his shaykh ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb al-Rāzī, whom I do not know, and the rest of its men are trustworthy." It appears that it is from another path different from the first, thus the ḥadīth is strengthened by it. And ʿAlī ibn Ḥarb al-Rāzī might be al-Ṭāʾī al-Rāzī, for he is from this generation, and he is truthful and virtuous. And Allāh knows best. Then he mentioned a supporting narration from the ḥadīth of Ibn Masʿūd with the wording: "Among the people are keys to the remembrance of Allāh; when they are seen, Allāh is remembered." However, it is very weak, and therefore I included it in "al-Ḍaʿīfah" (2409), and there occurred an astonishing typographical error by Haythamī in it, which was the reason for the obscurity of its defect to him, as I clarified there.

"Indeed, what remains of this world is trial and tribulation, and the example of the deeds of one of you is like a vessel; if its top is good, its bottom is good, and if its top is corrupt, its bottom is corrupt." It was narrated by Ibn al-Mubārak in "al-Zuhd" (596) and from him by Aḥmad (4/94) and al-Rāmahurmuzī in "al-Amthāl" (p. 101 - Hind): ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yazīd ibn Jābir informed us, saying: Abū ʿAbd Rabbih narrated to me, saying: I heard Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān say on this pulpit: I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) say: and he mentioned it. I said: and this isnād is authentic in my view, its men are trustworthy and well-known, except for Abū ʿAbd Rabbih, whom Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned in "al-Thiqāt" and a number of other trustworthy narrators have narrated from him