in summary, this addition found in al-Tirmidhī is anomalous and not established in the ḥadīth from Anas. The more likely explanation is that it is interpolated, as clarified by Aḥmad's narration. However, it is supported by the ḥadīth of Samurah ibn Jundub, who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said, "Al-Firdaws is the hill of Paradise, its highest and middle part, and from it flow the rivers of Paradise." al-Haythamī said (10/398): "It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī and al-Bazzār in a summarized form, with the addition: 'So when you ask Allāh, ask Him for al-Firdaws.' One of al-Ṭabarānī's chains of transmission includes men who are reliable, though some have weaknesses." It has another supporting narration, which is why I have dedicated a separate extraction for it below (2003). I said: The first path is found in al-Ṭabarānī's "al-Kabīr" (6885 and 6886) through two routes from Qatādah from al-Ḥasan from Samurah. Then he extracted it (7088) from the other path from Khabīb ibn Sulaymān ibn Samurah from his father from Samurah. This isnād is weak and unknown. The previous one is muʿanʿan.

- "Paradise has eight gates, and Hell has seven gates." It was extracted by Aḥmad (4/185) and Ibn Saʿd (7/430) from Ṣafwān ibn ʿAmr al-Saksakī from Abū al-Muthanná al-Amlūkī from ʿUtbah ibn ʿAbd al-Sulamī, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) say it, and he mentioned it. I said: Its narrators are reliable except for Abū al-Muthanná al-Amlūkī, who was deemed trustworthy by al-ʿAjlī and Ibn Ḥibbān, and he was also narrated from by Hilāl ibn Yasāf according to some