that it is in accordance with the sunnah, far from innovation. Ibn Masʿūd (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhu) also pointed to this by saying: "Moderation in a sunnah is better than striving in an innovation." Among them: that a small innovation leads to a big innovation. Do you not see that the people of those circles later became from the Khawārij, whom the rightly guided caliph ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib killed? So is there anyone who will take heed?!

- "There is no unmarried person in Paradise." It was recorded by Aslam al-Wāsiṭī in "His History" (180) through the route of Saʿīd ibn ʿĪsá al-Wāsiṭī who said: Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated to us from Ayyūb, Yūnus, and Ḥumayd from Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn from Abū Hurayrah who said: "Men and women boasted, so Abū Hurayrah said: Women are more than men in Paradise. ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb looked at the people and said: Do you not hear what Abū Hurayrah is saying? So Abū Hurayrah said: I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) say about the first group to enter Paradise: Their faces will be like the moon on the night of the full moon, and the second like the brightest star in the sky. Each of them will have two wives, and he will see the marrow of their shanks from behind the flesh, and there is no unmarried person in Paradise." I said: This isnād consists of trustworthy men, the men of Muslim, except for Saʿīd al-Wāsiṭī, whom I did not recognize. In his biography, Aslam mentioned him without stating any criticism or endorsement, and he was not alone in narrating it, for a group of trustworthy narrators reported it from Ayyūb from Muḥammad in a similar manner. It was recorded by Muslim (8/145-146), and Aḥmad (2/230, 247, 507). It was also recorded by al-Dārimī (2/336) through the route of Hishām al-Qirdūsī from Muḥammad with it.