regarding the innovation of pointing with the finger outside of the tashahhud, and for this reason, I specified it for extraction to clarify for the people. It was narrated by Aḥmad (4/3) with the wording: "When he sat in the tashahhud, he placed his right hand on his right thigh and his left hand on his left thigh and pointed with the index finger, and his gaze did not go beyond his pointing." It was also extracted by Abū Dāwūd and others in a similar manner, with an addition in one narration: "and he did not move it." This addition is anomalous as I have clarified in "Ḍaʿīf Abī Dāwūd" (175). The first narration was extracted in "Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd" (908 and 909). In the ḥadīth, there is the legitimacy of pointing with the finger during the sitting of the tashahhud. As for pointing during the sitting between the two prostrations, which some do today, it has no basis except in a narration by ʿAbd al-Razzāq in the ḥadīth of Wāʾil ibn Ḥujr, and it is anomalous as previously clarified in the preceding ḥadīth, a clarification not found elsewhere, and all praise is due to Allāh for His guidance, and I ask Him for more of His bounty.

- "There is no one more patient with the harm he hears than Allāh. Indeed, they attribute a child to Him (and set up rivals to Him), yet He grants them well-being (and protects them) and provides for them (and gives to them)." It was extracted by al-Bukhārī (6099 and 7378), Muslim (8/133-134), Yaʿqūb al-Fasawī in "al-Maʿrifah" (3/149-150), Aḥmad (4/395, 401, and 405), and al-Bayhaqī in "al-Asmāʾ wa-al-Ṣifāt" (p. 504-505) through various chains from al-Aʿmash, who narrated to us from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, from Abū Mūsá, as a marfūʿ report