twenty-three and one hundred, meaning one hundred and twenty-three, so he certainly met him. Perhaps Abū Mushir meant that he did not hear from him. And Allāh knows best. He was followed by Makḥūl according to al-Ṭabarānī (809) from Kathīr ibn Murrah with it. But in the chain to him is Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd, who is a mudallis, and he narrated it with ʿanʿanah. And the teacher of al-Ṭabarānī: ʿAmr ibn Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-ʿAlāʾ al-Ḥimṣī, I did not find a biography for him. Furthermore, this section on jihad still needs evidence to support and strengthen it. And Allāh knows best.

- "Adhere to good character and prolonged silence, for by the One in whose hand is my soul, the creation has not acted upon anything like them." It was narrated by Abū Yaʿlá in "Musnad" (2/834): Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Sāmī told us, Bashār ibn al-Ḥakam informed us, Thābit al-Bunānī from Anas said: "The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) met Abū Dharr and said: O Abū Dharr, shall I not guide you to two traits that are lighter on the back and heavier (in the scale) than others? He said: Yes, O Messenger of Allāh, he said: and he mentioned it." From this route, it was also narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Awsaṭ" (7245) and al-Bayhaqī in "Shuʿab al-Īmān" (1/65/1) through two other routes, Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Sāmī narrated it. He was followed by Muʿallá ibn Asad, Bashār ibn al-Ḥakam Abū Badr al-Ḍabbī narrated it. It was narrated by Ibn Abī al-Dunyā in "al-Ṣamt" (4/32/2) and al-Bazzār (p. 329 - Zawāʾid Ibn Ḥajar), and he said: "Bashār was the only one who narrated it, and he is weak." I said: He is among the men of "al-Mīzān" and "al-Lisān," and his name has been altered in the routes