the animals graze, and the amulets bring benefit!" The commentator's interpretation of "the evidences" is that "the amulets are the plural of amulet, which is a paper on which something from the names or verses is written and hung on the head, for example, for blessing." This is not correct because amulets, when mentioned without specification, are actually beads, as previously mentioned by Ibn al-Athīr. Moreover, even if this interpretation is accepted, there is no evidence in the sharīʿah that an amulet in this sense brings benefit. Therefore, some of the predecessors disliked this, as I have explained in my commentary on "al-Kalim al-Ṭayyib" (pp. 44-45, Islamic Office edition).

- "Could he not find something to settle his hair?! He saw another man wearing dirty clothes and said: Could this one not find water to wash his clothes?!" Narrated by Abū Dāwūd (no. 4062) and al-Nasāʾī (2/292) the first part of it, and Aḥmad (3/357) and Duḥaym in "al-Amālī" (25/2) and Abū Yaʿlá in "his Musnad" (fol. 114/1) and Ibn Ḥibbān (1438) and al-Ḥākim (4/186) and Abū Nuʿaym in "al-Ḥilyah" (6/78) from al-Awzāʿī from Ḥassān ibn ʿAṭiyyah from Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh who said: "The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) came to us (visiting our home) and saw a disheveled man with scattered hair and said..." and he mentioned it. The context is from Abū Dāwūd and the addition is from Aḥmad. I say: This is an authentic isnād according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs, as al-Ḥākim said, and al-Dhahabī agreed with him. The ḥadīth was mentioned by al-Ghazālī in "Iḥyāʾ" (1/122) with the wording: "A man with disheveled hair and a tangled beard entered upon him (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam), and he said: Could this one not find oil to settle his hair?! Then he said: Does one of you enter as if he is a devil?!"