I said: Shurayk has some weakness in terms of his memory, but Zuhayr's corroboration strengthens it. Zuhayr is Zuhayr ibn Muʿāwiyah ibn Khudayj, who is a trustworthy narrator from the two Shaykhs [al-Bukhārī and Muslim]. The ḥadīth highlights an etiquette of gatherings during the time of the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) that people often neglect today, even those knowledgeable in religion. It is that when a person enters a gathering, he should sit where the gathering ends, even if it is at the threshold of the door. If he finds a similar place, he should sit there and not expect someone from the gathering to vacate their seat for him, as some arrogant leaders and pretentious scholars do. This is explicitly forbidden in the saying of the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam): "Do not make a man stand from his seat and then sit in it, but rather make space and expand." Muslim narrated it and added in another narration: "When Ibn ʿUmar was offered a seat by someone who stood up for him, he would not sit in it."

"Indeed, incantations, amulets, and love charms are shirk." This was narrated by Abū Dāwūd (3883), Ibn Mājah (3530), Ibn Ḥibbān (1412), and Aḥmad (1/381) through the route of Yaḥyá al-Jazzār from the nephew of Zaynab, the wife of ʿAbdullāh, from Zaynab, the wife of ʿAbdullāh, from ʿAbdullāh who said: I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) say: and he mentioned it. I said: All the narrators are trustworthy except for the nephew of Zaynab. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Taqrīb": "He seems to be a Companion, but I did not see him named." I said: His mention was omitted from the book of Ibn Ḥibbān