3 - Chapter on Restraining the Tongue

4264 - 'Abd al-Malik ibn Shu'ayb ibn al-Layth narrated to us, Ibn Wahb narrated to me, al-Layth narrated to me, from Yahya ibn Sa'id, who said: Khalid ibn Abi 'Imran said, from 'Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Baylamani, from 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Hurmuz.

From Abu Hurayrah, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "There will be a trial that is deaf, mute, and blind. Whoever exposes himself to it, it will expose itself to him, and the exposure of the tongue in it is like the falling of the sword."(1)

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(1) Its chain is weak due to the weakness of 'Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Baylamani, and there is disagreement regarding the chain of this hadith and its text. Sometimes it is narrated with this chain, and sometimes it is narrated from al-Layth — who is Ibn Sa'd — from Yahya ibn Sa'id — who is al-Ansari — from Khalid ibn Abi 'Imran, from 'Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Baylamani, from 'Abd al-Rahman — and it is said: 'Abdullah — ibn Farrukh, from Abu Hurayrah. This 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Farrukh is a Syrian; al-Bukhari mentioned him in his "Al-Tarikh al-Kabir," 5/337, and Ibn 'Asakir also mentioned him in "Tarikh Dimashq" 31/400, but he named him 'Abdullah ibn Farrukh, and transmitted al-'Ijli's declaration of his reliability, and mentioned a group who narrated from him. We say: This disagreement in naming 'Abd al-Rahman is only from Ibn al-Baylamani, the weak one — sometimes he said: Ibn Hurmuz, and this is al-A'raj, the well-known trustworthy narrator, and sometimes he said: Ibn Farrukh, and this is another Syrian man, as we have mentioned.

This hadith has also been narrated in another manner with a different chain and with a difference in its text as well. Ibn Qani' transmitted in "Mu'jam al-Sahabah" 1/17 from 'Abdullah ibn Abi Dawud al-Sijistani, from 'Abd al-Malik ibn Shu'ayb ibn al-Layth, from Ibn Wahb, from al-Layth, from Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Ansari, from Khalid ibn Abi 'Imran, from al-Hakam ibn Mas'ud al-Najrani, from Unays ibn Abi Marthad al-Ansari, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "There will be a trial that is mute, deaf, and blind. The one lying down in it is better than the one sitting, and the one sitting is better than the one standing, and the one standing is better than the one walking, and the one walking is better than the one running." So he made it from the hadith of al-Hakam ibn Mas'ud, from Unays ibn Abi Marthad al-Ansari.

And this al-Hakam is unknown. And the text differs, as you see, but it is closer to correctness because it comes through another authentic route with this wording from Abu Hurayrah, as will be explained. And al-Hafiz mentioned in =