of the bowl, and he said: "Eat, placing your trust in Allah and relying upon Him."(1)

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(1) Its chain of transmission is weak due to the weakness of Mufaḍḍal ibn Faḍālah. Ibn ʿAdī said in his biography in "al-Kāmil": "I have not seen in his hadith anything more objectionable than this hadith which I have dictated." Al-Dāraquṭnī said in "al-Gharāʾib wa al-Afrād," as cited in "Aṭrāfuhu" by Ibn Ṭāhir al-Maqdisī (1678): "Mufaḍḍal ibn Faḍālah, the brother of Mubārak, was alone in narrating it from Ḥabīb ibn al-Shahīd." We say: Shuʿbah ibn al-Ḥajjāj contradicted him, narrating it from Ḥabīb ibn al-Shahīd, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Buraydah, that ʿUmar took the hand of a leper. Al-Tirmidhī said: "The hadith of Shuʿbah is more similar and more authentic in my view." Al-ʿUqaylī said in "al-Ḍuʿafāʾ" 4/242-243, after citing it with its chain but making it from Salmān instead of ʿUmar: "He used to work with his hands, then buy food, then send it to the lepers, and they would eat with him." He said: "This is the foundation of the hadith, and this narration is more worthy."

Ibn Mājah (3542) and al-Tirmidhī (1920) also narrated it via the chain of Mufaḍḍal ibn Faḍālah with this isnād.

It is also found in "Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān" (6120).

Ibn Saʿd narrated it in "al-Ṭabaqāt" 4/89, Ibn Abī al-Dunyā in "Iṣlāḥ al-Māl" (321), al-ʿUqaylī in "al-Ḍuʿafāʾ al-Kabīr" 4/242, Abū Nuʿaym in "Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʾ" 1/200, and Ibn ʿAsākir in "Tārīkh Dimashq" 21/440 via the chain of Shuʿbah ibn al-Ḥajjāj; and al-Ṭabarī in "Tahdhīb al-Āthār" in "Musnad ʿAlī" p. 29 via the chain of Sufyān ibn Ḥabīb — both of them (Shuʿbah and Sufyān ibn Ḥabīb) from Ḥabīb ibn al-Shahīd, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Buraydah, who said: "Salmān used to work with his hands, then buy food, then send it to the lepers, and they would eat with him." This is a chain whose narrators are trustworthy.

What contradicts it has been established in the Ṣaḥīḥ: among that is what al-Bukhārī narrated in his "Ṣaḥīḥ" in suspended form with an affirmative formula (5707), on the authority of Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "There is no contagion, no evil omen, no hāmah, no ṣafar, and flee from the leper as you would flee from a lion." Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Fatḥ" 10/167: "Al-Bukhārī did not connect it elsewhere... but Abū Nuʿaym connected it via the chain of Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī and Abū Qutaybah Sallam ibn Qutaybah."

Aḥmad (19468), Muslim (2231), and others narrated it via the chain of ʿAmr ibn al-Sharīd, from his father, who said: "There was a leprous man among the delegation of Thaqīf, so the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, sent word to him: 'We have accepted your pledge of allegiance, so return.'" This is the wording of Muslim.