and it is supported by the lengthy ḥadīth of Abū Dharr himself, found with Abū Dāwūd and others. It was authenticated by Ibn Ḥibbān, al-Dāraquṭnī, and others, and it is referenced in "al-Irwāʾ" (1/181/153) and "Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd" (358-360).

- (when a man embraced Islam, the first thing he would teach us was prayer, or he said: teach him prayer). It was narrated by al-Bazzār in "Musnad" (1/171/338): Abū Kurayb narrated to us: Abū Muʿāwiyah narrated to us: [Abū Mālik al-Ashjaʿī narrated] from his father who said... and he mentioned it. I said: This isnād is authentic; all its narrators are trustworthy: Abū Kurayb—he is Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAlāʾ al-Kūfī—trustworthy, a ḥāfiẓ from the narrators of the two Shaykhs. Abū Muʿāwiyah—he is Muḥammad ibn Khāzim al-Kūfī—from the narrators of the two Shaykhs; al-Ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Taqrīb": "Trustworthy, the most knowledgeable of people in the ḥadīth of al-Aʿmash; he may err in the ḥadīth of others." I said: And he was followed up as will come, Abū Mālik al-Ashjaʿī—his name is Saʿd ibn Ṭāriq ibn Ashyam—trustworthy from the narrators of Muslim, and his father is a well-known Companion. Muslim narrated two ḥadīths from him in "Ṣaḥīḥ," and al-Ṭabarānī narrated seventeen ḥadīths excluding repetitions, and Aḥmad narrated six of them, some of which are in "al-Sunan," and in many of them, he explicitly states he heard from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam). The ḥadīth was also narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr" in a summarized form, saying: (8/380/8186): Muḥammad ibn Hishām ibn Abī al-Dumayk narrated to us: al-Ḥasan ibn Ḥammād narrated to us