- "Whoever meets Allāh without associating anything with Him and has not shed unlawful blood will enter Paradise." It was recorded by Aḥmad (4/152): Wakiʿ narrated to us from Ibn Abī Khālid from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿĀʾidh from ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir al-Juhanī who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: and he mentioned it. With this chain, it was narrated by Ibn Abī Shaybah in his "Musnad" as in "Zawāʾid Ibn Mājah" (p. 162/2) by al-Būṣīrī, and by Ibn Mājah (2618) and al-Ḥākim (4/351) through two other chains from Wakiʿ. Al-Ḥākim authenticated it. Al-Dhahabī agreed with him, and it is as they said, for all its narrators are trustworthy, the narrators of the two Shaykhs, except for Ibn ʿĀʾidh, who was declared trustworthy by al-Nasāʾī and Ibn Ḥibbān. Al-Būṣīrī criticized it for being disconnected, saying: "This is a sound chain if ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿĀʾidh al-Azdī heard from ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir, for it has been said that his narration from him is mursal." This is what he said, and I have not known anyone to mention this before him, and I suspect he was mistaken, for al-Ḥāfiẓ mentioned that he narrated from a group of Companions, including ʿUmar, ʿAlī, Muʿādh, ʿUqbah, and others, then he said: "It has been said that he met ʿAlī." Abū Zurʿah said: His ḥadīth from ʿAlī is mursal, and he did not meet Muʿādh, and Ibn Abī Ḥātim said: He narrated from ʿUmar mursal." This is all they mentioned in his biography regarding disconnection, so it appears he confused ʿUqbah with Muʿādh, and there is a significant difference between their deaths, for Muʿādh died in the year 18, and ʿUqbah in the year 60! So he certainly met him, and al-Ḥāfiẓ indicated this by saying in "al-Taqrīb": "Trustworthy, from the third generation, and it is a mistake to mention him among the Companions, Abū Zurʿah said: He did not meet Muʿādh." Then Wakiʿ was followed up, as Aḥmad said (4/148): Yazīd ibn Hārūn narrated to us: He informed us