"then he washed his arms until the water flowed over his elbows." It was recorded by al-Ṭaḥāwī in "Sharḥ al-Maʿānī" (1/22) as well as al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Kabīr," and al-Haythamī said in "Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid" (1/224): "Its narrators are trustworthy." I said: It is with al-Ṭaḥāwī through the chain of Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ from al-Aswad ibn Qays from Thaʿlabah with it. Qays has poor memory, and Thaʿlabah is considered acceptable by the ḥāfiẓ. And from Wāʾil ibn Ḥujr, with al-Bazzār and al-Ṭabarānī with a weak chain, and I have explained its defects in "al-Aḥādīth al-Ḍaʿīfah" (449). Among what strengthens the ḥadīth is what was narrated by Nuʿaym ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mujammir who said: "I saw Abū Hurayrah performing ablution, so he washed his face, completed the ablution thoroughly, then washed his right hand until he reached the upper arm, then his left hand until he reached the upper arm, ... then he said: This is how I saw the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) performing ablution." It was recorded by Muslim (1/149). The ḥadīth was strengthened by al-Ṣanʿānī in "Subul al-Salām" with the ḥadīths of Thaʿlabah and Wāʾil.

"When he swore an oath, he would not break it until Allāh, the Exalted, revealed the expiation for oaths, and he said: I do not swear an oath and then see something better than it except that I expiate for my oath and then do what is better." It was recorded by al-Ḥākim (4/301) from Abū al-Ashʿath, who narrated from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṭafāwī, who narrated from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah from his father from ʿĀʾishah, and he said: