"truthful, but he changed when he grew old; his son introduced into his ḥadīth what was not from it, and he narrated it." However, this ḥadīth of his is acceptable as a supporting evidence for the ḥadīth of the chapter, and most of it has supporting evidence in Muslim (3/37-38 and 39) and others. It is also included in "Aḥkām al-Janāʾiz" (pp. 12 and 23). The phrase: "O Allāh, do not deprive us of his reward..." etc., is confirmed in the ḥadīth of Abū Hurayrah regarding what the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) used to say when he prayed over a funeral, as found in Abū Dāwūd and Ibn Ḥibbān (756 - Mawārid), and it is included in "al-Aḥkām" (p. 124).

- "Indeed, Allāh has angels who roam the earth conveying to me the greetings of my ummah." It was narrated by al-Nasāʾī (1/189), Ibn Ḥibbān (1392), al-Ḥākim (2/421), as well as al-Dārimī (2/317), Aḥmad (1/441 and 452), Ibn al-Mubārak in "al-Zuhd" (Q/204/2), al-Qāḍī Ismāʿīl in "Faḍl al-Ṣalāh ʿalá al-Nabī" (no. 21), and from him by Ibn al-Najjār in "Tārīkh al-Madīnah" page (398), Ibn Abī Shaybah in "al-Muṣannaf" (2/135/2), Ibn al-Dībājī in "al-Fawāʾid al-Muntaqāh" (2/80/2), al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Kabīr" (3/81/2), Abū Nuʿaym in "Akhbār Aṣbahān" (5/205), and Ibn ʿAsākir in "Tārīkh Dimashq" (9/189/2) through various chains from Sufyān al-Thawrī, and some paired him with al-Aʿmash, both from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Sāʾib from Zādhān from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd as a marfūʿ ḥadīth, and al-Ḥākim said: "Its isnād is authentic." Al-Dhahabī agreed with him, and Ibn al-Qayyim also authenticated it in "Jalāʾ al-Afhām" (p. 27). And it is as they said