then I found another supporting narration for the ḥadīth, transmitted as a mursal report with the wording: "When a believing servant dies, his soul is received by the souls of the believers, and they ask him: What did so-and-so do? If he says: He has died, they say: He has been taken to his mother, the abyss, and what a terrible mother and a terrible nurturer she is." It was recorded by al-Ḥākim (2/533) through the route of al-Mubārak ibn Faḍālah from al-Ḥasan who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: and he mentioned it. He said: "This is a mursal ḥadīth with a ṣaḥīḥ isnād." This is what he said, but Ibn Faḍālah used to practice tadlīs and concealment as mentioned in "Taqrīb," so in its mursal form, it does not have a ṣaḥīḥ isnād, and it was made muʿḍal and mawqūf by al-Ashʿath ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Aʿmā - who is among the narrators from al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī - who said: When the believer dies... the ḥadīth similar to it. It was recorded by Ibn Jarīr (30/182): Ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlá narrated to us, Ibn Thawr narrated to us from Maʿmar from him. I say: This isnād has trustworthy men, but it is maqṭūʿ and mawqūf on this al-Ashʿath. (Note): From the exaggeration of Shaykh al-Ṣābūnī in his book "Mukhtaṣar Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr," which I pointed out something of in the introduction to the fourth volume of "al-Ṣaḥīḥah," that he mentioned this ḥadīth in his "Mukhtaṣar" (3/670) and said: "Ibn Jarīr narrated..." following his original. Then he repeated that in the footnote and said: "It was recorded by Ibn Jarīr"! So is this repetition in the text and footnote a form of brevity or unnecessary lengthening, and the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) spoke the truth when he said: "Whoever pretends to have what he has not been given is like one who wears two garments of falsehood." It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd and al-Tirmidhī, as well as al-Bukhārī in "al-Adab al-Mufrad" from the ḥadīth of Jābir, and Aḥmad from the ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah, and one supports the other, and I have discussed their isnāds in "al-Taʿlīq al-Raghīb" (2/55-56)