he was cauterized seven times, and we came to visit him. He said: If I had not heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) say, "Do not wish for death," I would have wished for it. And he was repairing a wall of his and said: I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) say, and he mentioned it. Ibn Ḥibbān also narrated it from this perspective (5/99-100) without the wishing [for death]. I say: This is a rare authentic isnād, and it meets the criteria of al-Bukhārī and Muslim. Al-Bukhārī included it in his "Ṣaḥīḥ" (5672) and "al-Adab al-Mufrad" (455), Aḥmad (5/110), al-Ḥumaydī (154), and from him al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (4/70/3633), as well as Abū Nuʿaym in "al-Ḥilyah" (1/146) and al-Ṭabarānī also (3635) through various chains from Ismāʿīl, stopping at Khabbāb. I say: This is more authentic, but I consider it to be effectively raised [to the Prophet], especially since it has been explicitly raised in some routes, corroborations, and supporting narrations. I will mention what is available to me: Firstly, from Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh from Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid from him from Khabbāb who said: I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) say: "Every expenditure a servant spends, he is rewarded for it except for building." Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" (4/73/3641) with a sound chain from Ibn ʿAyyāsh, and the rest of its narrators are trustworthy except for Ibn ʿAyyāsh, who was weakened in his narrations from non-Shāmīs, and this is one of them, as Ibn Abī Khālid is Kūfan. Thus, his narration is accepted in corroborations and supporting narrations. Secondly, from ʿUmar ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Mujālid: My father narrated to us from Bayān ibn Bishr and Ibn Abī Mujālid from him, and his wording is: "A Muslim is rewarded for all his expenditures except what he places in the ground." Al-Ṭabarānī also narrated it (3645)