- "Indeed, the believer wears out his devils just as one of you wears out his camel during travel." It was recorded by Aḥmad (2/380) who said: Qutaybah ibn Saʿīd narrated to us, saying: Ibn Lahīʿah narrated to us from Mūsá ibn Wardān from Abū Hurayrah as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. I say: This isnād is ḥasan because Ibn Lahīʿah's ḥadīth is authentic when narrated by Qutaybah, as I have mentioned more than once. And Mūsá ibn Wardān is truthful, as stated by al-Dhahabī and others, and he has other ḥadīths; see for example volume one, numbers (225 and 467). The ḥadīth is also attributed by al-Suyūṭī in "al-Jāmiʿ" to al-Ḥakīm, and Ibn Abī al-Dunyā in "Makāʾid al-Shayṭān," where al-Munāwī said: "Al-Haythamī, following his teacher al-Ḥāfiẓ al-ʿIrāqī, said: It contains Ibn Lahīʿah. And I say: It also contains Saʿīd ibn Sharḥabīl, whom al-Dhahabī mentioned in "al-Ḍuʿafāʾ," counting him among the unknowns. In "al-Mīzān": Abū Ḥātim said: Unknown. And Mūsá ibn Wardān was weakened by Ibn Maʿīn, but authenticated by Abū Dāwūd"! I say: This Ibn Sharḥabīl is not mentioned in Aḥmad's isnād, contrary to what al-Munāwī's words might suggest. And Mūsá ibn Wardān; the preferred opinion is that he is of moderate reliability in ḥadīth as mentioned earlier, which is indicated by al-Dhahabī's statement. Similarly—or something close—is the statement of al-Ḥāfiẓ in "al-Taqrīb": "Truthful, but sometimes errs." Then I saw Shaykh Aḥmad al-Ghumārī in his book "al-Madāwī" launching a critique against al-Munāwī