disliked it and avoided it! When that reached him, he stood and delivered a sermon, saying: "and he mentioned it. I said: The matter in which the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) gave a concession was kissing during fasting, contrary to what might come to some minds, and the evidence is the following ḥadīth: "I am the most God-fearing among you and the most knowledgeable of Allāh's limits."

- "I am the most God-fearing among you and the most knowledgeable of Allāh's limits." It was narrated by Imām Aḥmad (5/434): ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us, Ibn Jurayj informed us: Yazīd ibn Aslam informed me from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār from a man of the Anṣār, that the Anṣārī informed ʿAṭāʾ: "that he kissed his wife during the time of the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) while he was fasting, and he ordered his wife to ask the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) about that. The Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: Indeed, the Messenger of Allāh does that. So his wife informed him, and he said: The Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) is given concessions in certain matters, so return to him and tell him. She returned to the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) and said: He said: The Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) is given concessions in certain matters. He said: and he mentioned it. I said: And this is a sound, connected isnād.

- "When we reached the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam), one of us would sit wherever he ended up." It was recorded by Zuhayr ibn Ḥarb in "al-ʿIlm" (no. 100 in my verification), al-Bukhārī in "al-Adab al-Mufrad" (1141), Abū Dāwūd (4825), al-Tirmidhī (2/121), and Aḥmad (5/91, 98, 107-108) through the route of Sharīk from Simāk ibn Ḥarb from Jābir ibn Samurah, who said: and he mentioned it. Al-Tirmidhī said: "This ḥadīth is ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ gharīb, and Zuhayr also narrated it from Simāk."