and a group narrated from him, and it suffices for the authenticity of the ḥadīth that Ibn Maʿīn narrated it and did not criticize it in any way! The ḥadīth is not contrary to the Quran as some might imagine; refer to the explanation I attached to it in "al-Mishkāt" (5735) and then in "Mukhtaṣar al-ʿUlū" by al-Dhahabī, ḥadīth number (71), where there is another chain from Abū Hurayrah, so review it. The narration of Ibrāhīm ibn Abī Yaḥyá, which al-Bayhaqī referred to, was extracted by al-Ḥākim in "ʿUlūm al-Ḥadīth" (p. 33): Ibrāhīm said: Ṣafwān ibn Sulaym clasped my hand and said: Ayyūb ibn Khālid al-Anṣārī clasped my hand and said: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Rāfiʿ clasped my hand and said: Abū Hurayrah clasped my hand and said: Abū al-Qāsim (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) clasped my hand and said: and he mentioned it. Al-Ḥākim indicated its weakness in this manner, with the chain of clasping, and its defect is Ibrāhīm, for he is abandoned as previously mentioned. As for Dr. Aḥmad Muḥammad Nūr's criticism in his commentary on "al-Tārīkh" (3/52) of the ḥadīth due to Ayyūb ibn Khālid and his statement: it has some weakness. It is merely an imitation of Ibn Ḥajar in his softening of him in "al-Taqrīb", and it is nothing, for no one weakened him except al-Azdī, who himself is considered weak by the ḥadīth scholars, so take note.

- "The best provision is sufficiency." It was extracted by Wakīʿ in "al-Zuhd" (manuscript number 113): Mubārak narrated to us from al-Ḥasan who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: and he mentioned it. I said: This is a weak mursal ḥadīth, Mubārak ibn Faḍālah is a mudallis, and he narrated it with ʿanʿanah. However, Aḥmad also extracted it in "al-Zuhd" from Ziyād ibn Jubayr, also mursal, as in "al-Jāmiʿ al-Ṣaghīr". And it has a supporting narration from the ḥadīth of Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ, raised with the wording: