I said: Abū Masʿūd died in the year forty, and Abū ʿĀmir al-Ashʿarī died during the caliphate of ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān, whose caliphate began in the year 65, and it is said in the year 73. Therefore, it is even more likely that he could have heard from him, as his death occurred twenty years or more after the death of Abū Masʿūd. Therefore, the ḥāfiẓ mentioned in "al-Taqrīb" that he is trustworthy from the fourth generation. He died in the year one hundred and twenty. In summary, the ḥadīth has a sound isnād, and all its narrators are trustworthy. It aligns in general with the numerous ḥadīths that enjoin commanding good and forbidding evil, which are well-known and abundant.

"Whoever does not engage in battle, equip a warrior, or take care of a warrior's family in his absence, Allāh, the Exalted, will afflict him with a calamity before the Day of Resurrection." It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (2503), and from him by al-Bayhaqī (9/48), al-Dārimī (2/209), Ibn Mājah (2762), Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim in "al-Jihād" (83/1), al-Ṭabarānī in "Musnad al-Shāmiyyīn" (p. 176) and in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (8/211/7747), and Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Maqdisī in "Faḍl al-Jihād" (fol. 120/2) through various chains from al-Walīd ibn Muslim: Yḥā ibn al-Ḥārith al-Dhamārī narrated to us from al-Qāsim from Abū Umāmah from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) who said it. I said: This isnād is ḥasan, if Allāh wills, and its narrators are trustworthy, except for a difference of opinion regarding al-Qāsim, who is Ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, a companion of Abū Umāmah. It is established that he is ḥasan in ḥadīth, and although al-Walīd ibn Muslim is feared for tadlīs al-taswiyah, al-Qāsim is well-known for narrating from Abū Umāmah, as is al-Dhamārī from him. In "Musnad al-Ruyānī" (30/217/2) and through him by Ibn ʿAsākir in "al-Arbaʿīn fī al-Ḥathth ʿalá al-Jihād" (p. 84), there is an explicit mention of direct narration instead of (from) in all instances