it was also recorded by al-Bukhārī (6/286, 8/139, 13/269), al-Tirmidhī (2965), and Aḥmad (3/32), and al-Tirmidhī said: "A ḥadīth that is ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ."

"The least of my community can grant protection." It was recorded by Aḥmad (2/365) and al-Ḥākim (2/141) from Kathīr ibn Zayd from al-Walīd ibn Rabāḥ from Abū Hurayrah that the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said it, and he mentioned it. I said: And this isnād is ḥasan. The ḥadīth is authentic, as it has supporting narrations with the wording of granting protection: 1 - from Anas as marfūʿ. It was recorded by al-Ṭaḥāwī in "Mushkil al-Āthār" (2/92) and al-Ḥākim (4/45) through the route of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shabīb who narrated to us from Ayyūb ibn Sulaymān ibn Bilāl who narrated to me from Abū Bakr ibn Abī ʾUways who narrated to me from Sulaymān ibn Bilāl from Yaḥyá ibn Saʿīd and Ṣāliḥ ibn Kaysān from Ibn Shihāb from him. I said: And this isnād is weak, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Shabīb is unreliable. 2 - and from Umm Salamah as marfūʿ. It was recorded by al-Ḥākim. Its isnād is ḥasan in the supporting narrations. 3 - and from ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ with it. It was recorded by Aḥmad (4/197) and Abū Yaʿlá (4/1769) from a man from him. Its narrators are trustworthy, the narrators of the two shaykhs, except for the man, and with it, al-Haythamī criticized it (5/329)