his companionship, and his statement in "The Work of the Day": (ʿUqbah) I think it is a scribal error. Correctly, Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah mentioned it at the end of his book "al-Kalim al-Ṭayyib" without attributing it to Aḥmad, and I attributed it in the commentary to Abū Dāwūd, but it is more appropriate to attribute it to Ibn al-Sunnī because its wording matches his. And Allāh knows best. ʿAbd al-Razzāq also reported it (10/406/19512) from Maʿmar from al-Aʿmash that the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: then he mentioned it. This is a sound but interrupted chain.

"Would it not please you if Allāh admitted you to Paradise to find him at one of its gates opening it for you? Meaning his young son." It was narrated by Ibn Saʿd (7/32-33): ʿAbdullāh ibn Jaʿfar al-Raqī informed us, saying: ʿUbaydullāh ibn ʿAmr narrated to us from ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr from Muʿāwiyah ibn Qurrah from his uncle that he used to bring his son to the Prophet and seat him before him. The Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said to him: "Do you love him?" He said: Yes, with intense love. Then the boy died, and the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said to him: "It seems you are saddened by him?" He said: Yes, O Messenger of Allāh. Then he mentioned it. He said: Indeed. The Prophet said: "Then it is so, if Allāh wills." I said: This isnād [chain of transmission] consists of narrators all of whom are trustworthy, the narrators of the two Shaykhs, but I was troubled by his saying: "from his uncle," as it initially occurred to me that it might be a scribal error for "from his father," as it is in "al-Musnad" and "Sunan al-Nasāʾī" with two isnāds from Muʿāwiyah ibn Qurrah, and both are more authentic than this. However, it seems there is no error, as Ibn Saʿd included it in the biography of (the brother of Qurrah ibn Iyās), so it appears to be a mistake from one of its narrators, and it is from one of the two ʿAbds: Ibn Jaʿfar or Ibn ʿUmayr, as both had changes in their memory. Furthermore, the wording of the ḥadīth in one of al-Nasāʾī's narrations is more complete, so refer to it if you wish in "Aḥkām al-Janāʾiz" (p. 162).