- "There is no servant who visits a brother for the sake of Allāh except that a caller from the sky announces: 'You have done well and Paradise is for you,' or Allāh says in the dominion of His Throne: 'My servant visited for My sake, and I have prepared for him no reward less than Paradise.'" It was recorded by Abū Yaʿlá in "his Musnad" (3/1024), al-Bazzār (2/388-389), Abū Nuʿaym in "al-Ḥilyah" (3/107), and al-Ḍiyāʾ in "al-Mukhtārah" (Q 240/1) through the route of Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb: Maimūn ibn ʿAjlān informed us from Maimūn ibn Siyāh from Anas as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. Abū Nuʿaym said: "It was narrated by al-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Ḥumrah from Ḥammād ibn Jaʿfar from Maimūn ibn Siyāh similarly." I say: Ibn Ḥumrah is weak, but the isnād before it consists of the narrators of "al-Ṣaḥīḥ," except for Maimūn ibn ʿAjlān, who was mentioned by al-Bukhārī in "al-Tārīkh" (7/343) and by Ibn Abī Ḥātim (4/1/239) from the narration of this Yūsuf from him, and they did not mention any criticism or praise, except that Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: "My father was asked about him? He said: A shaykh." Know that when someone is described as "a shaykh," he is in the third rank of the levels of reliability. His ḥadīth is written and considered, as Ibn Abī Ḥātim himself said (1/1/37), and scholars have followed this as you see in "al-Tadrīb" (p. 232). This means that his ḥadīth is selected from, or that he is considered reliable if he does not contradict, and perhaps al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī alluded to this by saying in the introduction to "al-Mīzān": "I did not mention those described as 'his place is truthfulness,' nor those described as 'there is no harm in him,' nor those described as 'his ḥadīth is sound,' or 'his ḥadīth is written,' or 'he is a shaykh,' for this and its like indicate the absence of absolute weakness."