thereby indicating his concealment. Ibn Abī Ḥusayn's name is ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd ibn Abī Ḥusayn al-Nawfalī al-Makkī. He has another chain from al-Qāsim, narrated by al-Walīd ibn Muslim who said: Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad narrated to us from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Qāsim from his father from ʿĀʾishah (raḍiya Allāhu ʿanhā) who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: "When Allāh intends good for a ruler, He appoints for him a truthful minister. If he forgets, the minister reminds him, and if he remembers, the minister assists him. But if Allāh intends otherwise for him, He appoints for him an evil minister. If he forgets, the minister does not remind him, and if he remembers, the minister does not assist him." It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (2932) and Ibn Ḥibbān in his "Ṣaḥīḥ" (1551 - Mawārid) through two chains from al-Walīd. Its narrators are trustworthy, the narrators of the two Shaykhs, except that Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad, who is Abū al-Mundhir al-Khurāsānī, is weak due to his memory. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said: "The narration of the people of Shām from him is not reliable, and he was weakened because of it. Al-Bukhārī said, quoting Aḥmad: It is as if Zuhayr, from whom the people of Shām narrate, is another person. Abū Ḥātim said: He narrated in Shām from his memory, so his mistakes were numerous." I said: However, in this ḥadīth, he has preserved it or nearly so, as he did not deviate from the meaning of Baqiyyah's ḥadīth. And Allāh knows best.

"O people, I am but a mercy bestowed." It was recorded by Ibn Saʿd in "al-Ṭabaqāt" (1/192 - Beirut edition): Wakiʿ ibn al-Jarrāḥ informed us: al-Aʿmash informed us from Abū Ṣāliḥ who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said it, and he mentioned it. I said: This is an authentic mursal isnād. It was also recorded by Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Aʿrābī in "al-Muʿjam" (folio 106/2) who said: Ibrāhīm informed us, Wakiʿ informed us with it