"its chain is authentic, and its narrators are trustworthy." al-Dhahabī confirmed this, and it is as he said. al-Tirmidhī said: "It is ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ. I heard Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl say: Sulaimān ibn Ḥarb used to say about this ḥadīth: 'None of us, but Allāh removes it through reliance on Him.' He said: This, in my opinion, is the statement of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd." I said: This means that this part of the ḥadīth is inserted and not elevated [to the Prophet], and perhaps for this reason, al-Suyūṭī did not include it in its entirety but only mentioned the first sentence based on Ibn Ḥarb's statement. The commentator al-Manāwī said: "But Ibn al-Qaṭṭān critiqued it by saying that any statement presented in a context cannot be claimed as inserted without evidence." I said: And there is no evidence here for insertion, so the ḥadīth is authentic in its entirety.

- "Be kind to my Companions, then those who follow them, then those who follow them. Then there will come people, one of whom will swear an oath before being asked to swear it, and will testify before being asked to testify. Whoever among you wishes to attain the spaciousness of Paradise, let him adhere to the community, for indeed the devil is with the solitary, and he is further from two. No man should be alone with a woman, for the third of them is the devil. Whoever among you is pleased by his good deed and saddened by his bad deed is a believer." It was recorded by Ibn Mājah (2/64), al-Ṭaḥāwī in "Sharḥ al-Maʿānī" (2/284-285), Ibn Ḥibbān (2282) without the phrase: "Whoever wishes" etc., al-Ṭayālisī (p. 7, no. 31), Aḥmad (vol. 1, no. 177), and Abū Yaʿlá in "Musnad" (1/45 - Islamic Office facsimile)