138) and from him, al-Ḥakam (4/78) from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl from al-Ṭufayl ibn Ubayy ibn Kaʿb from his father in a marfūʿ manner, excluding the first sentence, and al-Tirmidhī said: "A good ḥadīth." al-Ḥākim said: "The isnād is authentic!" and al-Dhahabī agreed! I say: It is a good isnād according to Aḥmad, for he has another authentic chain from Ibn ʿAqīl, and it is a good ḥadīth. In the chapter, there are reports from a number of other Companions, so whoever wishes to explore them should refer to "Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid," and what we have mentioned is sufficient. (Note) The third sentence of the ḥadīth did not appear in the Būlāq edition of "al-Tirmidhī" (2/324), and therefore we relied on the edition of Ustādh al-Daʿās for this takhrīj, and it would have been appropriate for him to note that.

- "Faith has over seventy branches, the lowest of which is removing harm from the path, and the highest is saying: There is no deity but Allāh." It was recorded by al-Bukhārī in "al-Adab al-Mufrad" (598), al-Tirmidhī (3/357 - Tuhfat), Ibn Mājah (57), Aḥmad (2/445), and Abū ʿUbayd in "al-Īmān" (number 4 - my verification) from the route of Sufyān from Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār from Abū Ṣāliḥ from Abū Hurayrah in a marfūʿ manner, except that the wording of al-Bukhārī is like the wording of Jarīr, which will come in Muslim. al-Tirmidhī said: "A good and authentic ḥadīth." I say: Jarīr followed Suhayl in it except that he said: "over seventy or over sixty branches." The rest is similar except that he said: "the best of them" instead of "the highest of them," and he added: