"take your shield." They said: O Messenger of Allāh! Is there an enemy present? He said: "No, but your shield from the Fire is to say: Subḥān Allāh ... then he mentioned the four [phrases]; for they will come on the Day of Resurrection as protectors and followers, and they are the enduring good deeds." It was recorded by al-Nasāʾī in "ʿAmal al-Yawm wa-al-Laylah" (488/848), Ibn Abī Ḥātim in "al-ʿIlal" (2/100/1793), al-Ḥākim (1/549), and al-Bayhaqī in "Shuʿab al-Īmān" (1/425/606). He was followed by Dāwūd ibn Bilāl al-Saʿdī: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muslim al-Qasmīlī narrated it. It was recorded by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Awsaṭ" (5/26/4039) and "al-Duʿāʾ" (3/1561/1682), and he said: "No one narrated it from Ibn ʿAjlān except ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, and no one narrated it from him except Abū ʿUmar al-Ḥawḍī and Ibn Bilāl." I say: Both of them are trustworthy. Al-Ḥākim said: "Authentic according to the criteria of Muslim!" and al-Dhahabī agreed with him! Abū Ḥātim criticized it with a rare defect, and his son mentioned from him that he said: "We used to think this was strange until Aḥmad ibn Yūnus narrated to us from Fuḍayl ibn ʿIyāḍ from Ibn ʿAjlān from a man from Alexandria from the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam)... so I knew that it had corrupted ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muslim, and exposed his flaw, and the ḥadīth of Fuḍayl is more fitting." And I say: There is no doubt that Fuḍayl is more reliable than ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz—who is al-Qasmīlī—and that