that Allāh says: *"Do not prostrate,"* meaning, O those, prostrate, for those who recite with the lightening of the "do not."

"When a servant commits adultery, faith departs from him and hovers like a shadow. When he ceases, faith returns to him." This was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (4690) and al-Ḥākim (1/22) through the route of Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam, who informed us that Nāfiʿ ibn Yazīd narrated to us from Ibn al-Hād that Saʿīd ibn Abī Saʿīd narrated to us that he heard Abū Hurayrah say: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said it, and he mentioned it. Al-Ḥākim said: "Authentic according to the conditions of the two Shaykhs," and al-Dhahabī agreed with him. However, it is as they said except for Nāfiʿ, for al-Bukhārī only extracted from him in a suspended form, so it is according to the condition of Muslim alone. Then al-Ḥākim recorded it through another route from Abū Hurayrah with the wording: "Whoever commits adultery or drinks wine, Allāh removes faith from him as a person removes a shirt from over his head." But its isnād is weak, and its clarification is in "al-Silsilah al-Ḍaʿīfah" (1274). Al-Mundhirī attributed the ḥadīth in "al-Targhīb" (3/191) to al-Tirmidhī as well. This is due to his leniency, for it is with al-Tirmidhī (2/104) in a suspended form without a chain.

"Whoever Allāh protects from the evil of what is between his jaws and the evil of what is between his legs will enter Paradise." This was recorded by al-Tirmidhī (2/66) through the route of Ibn ʿAjlān from Abū Ḥāzim from Abū Hurayrah who said: The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said it, and he mentioned it. He said: "This is a ḥasan gharīb ḥadīth, and Abū Ḥāzim's name is Sulaymān, the freed slave of ʿAzzah al-Ashjaʿiyyah." I say: He is trustworthy and relied upon in "the two Ṣaḥīḥs," and so are all the other narrators except Ibn ʿAjlān