- "Show mercy, and you will be shown mercy; forgive, and Allāh will forgive you. Woe to those who are receptacles of words, and woe to those who persist in what they do while they know it is wrong." Narrated by al-Bukhārī in "al-Adab al-Mufrad" (no. 380), Aḥmad (2/165, 219), and ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd in "al-Muntakhab min al-Musnad" (42/1) from Ḥurayz ibn ʿUthmān, who reported from Ḥibbān ibn Zayd, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. I say: This isnād is authentic; all its narrators are trustworthy. Al-Mundhirī said in "al-Targhīb" (3/155): "Aḥmad narrated it with a good isnād." Likewise, al-ʿIrāqī said as mentioned in "Fayḍ al-Qadīr" by al-Munāwī, and it includes: "Al-Haythamī said the men of Aḥmad are the men of the authentic collections except for Ḥibbān ibn Zayd al-Sharʿabī, whom Ibn Ḥibbān declared trustworthy, and al-Ṭabarānī narrated it similarly." End of quote, and the author indicated its authenticity, and therein is what you see. And I say: There is nothing in it that contradicts authenticity, for quality may accompany it, and may contradict it when it is meant to be less than it, which is ḥasan. This is not obligatory here. Ḥibbān ibn Zayd was also declared trustworthy by Abū Dāwūd, who said: "All of Ḥurayz's teachers are trustworthy." Therefore, al-Ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Taqrīb": "Trustworthy from the third generation, and it is a mistake to claim he had companionship."