I said: This isnād is weak, and the text is objectionable. The ḥāfiẓ said: "ʿAbbād ibn Manṣūr al-Nājī; he is truthful but accused of Qadar, and he used to practice tadlīs, and he changed towards the end." As for the ḥadīth of Jābir; it is narrated by Suwayd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz from Abū al-Zubayr from Jābir in a concise elevated form with the wording: "The limit of the road is seven cubits." It was recorded by al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Muʿjam al-Awsaṭ" (9/96/9224), and he said: "No one narrated it from Abū al-Zubayr except Suwayd." I said: And he is weak; as in "al-Taqrīb." And al-Haythamī criticized it; he said in "al-Majmaʿ" (4/160): "And in it is Suwayd ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, who was deemed reliable by Duḥaym, but weakened by the majority of the imams."

(when one of you wakes up from his sleep and performs ablution, let him blow his nose three times, for the devil spends the night on his nostrils). It was recorded by al-Bukhārī (3295- "Fatḥ"), Muslim (1/146-147), Abū ʿAwānah (1/248), al-Nasāʾī (1/27), Ibn Khuzaymah in "Ṣaḥīḥ" (1/77/149), al-Bayhaqī (1/49), and Aḥmad (2/352).

(when two Muslims accompany each other, and a tree, stone, or mud comes between them, let one of them greet the other, and they should exchange greetings). It was recorded by al-Bayhaqī in "Shuʿab al-Īmān" (6/451/8860) from the route of Baqiyyah who said: