and Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥaḍramī said: "Truthful." Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "al-Thiqāt." I said: If it were not for the fact that Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit is known for tadlīs [concealing defects in a ḥadīth], I would have judged the isnād as authentic. At the very least, it serves as a good supporting evidence for what has been previously mentioned. And Allāh knows best.

- "There is no slaughtering in Islam." It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (2/71), Aḥmad (3/197), and al-Rāmahurmuzī in "al-Muḥaddith al-Fāṣil" (p. 46) from ʿAbd al-Razzāq, who reported from Maʿmar, from Thābit, from Anas, who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said it, and he mentioned it. ʿAbd al-Razzāq said: "They used to slaughter a cow or a sheep at the grave." I said: And this isnād is authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs [al-Bukhārī and Muslim]. I have found another chain for it, but it is weak. It is narrated by Sufyān from Abān, from Anas with it. It was recorded by Abū Nuʿaym in "al-Ḥilyah" (7/118) and al-Qaḍāʿī in "Musnad al-Shihāb" (Q 71/2). And Abān—he is Ibn Abī ʿAyyāsh—is abandoned.

- "The plain is not crossed except with effort." It was recorded by Ibn Mājah (2987), Aḥmad (6/404-405), and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Kabīr" (25/97/253) from Hishām al-Dastuwāʾī, from Badīl ibn Maysarah (from al-Mughīrah ibn Ḥakīm), from Ṣafiyyah bint Shaybah, from Umm Walad Shaybah, who said: