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= And al-Bukhārī recorded it in *al-Adab al-Mufrad* (no. 245) from Aḥmad ibn ʿĀṣim, and al-Ṭabarānī in *al-Awsaṭ* (no. 3572) and in *al-Shāmiyyīn* (no. 206) from Khayr ibn ʿUrfah — both of them from Ḥaywah ibn Shurayḥ, with this chain. The name of al-Ṭabarānī's shaykh in the printed edition of *Musnad al-Shāmiyyīn* was corrupted from Khayr ibn ʿUrfah to Ḥasan ibn ʿUrfah.

Yaʿqūb ibn Sufyān recorded it in his *Tārīkh* 2/356, and al-Bayhaqī in *al-Shuʿab* (no. 6717) via the route of Muḥammad ibn al-Muṣaffā; al-Ṭabarānī in *al-Kabīr* 20/(735) and in *al-Shāmiyyīn* (no. 3589), and al-Mizzī in *Tahdhīb al-Kamāl* 30/458–459 via the route of Yaḥyā ibn ʿUthmān; and al-Ṭabarānī in *al-Awsaṭ* (no. 697) via the route of Muʿallā ibn Nufayl — all three of them from Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd, with it.

And Baqiyyah was not alone in narrating it, for Aḥmad recorded it in his *Musnad* (no. 18011), al-Ḥārith in his *Musnad* — (al-Haythamī's *Zawāʾid*) (no. 879), Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim in *al-Āḥād wa-l-Mathānī* (no. 2807), Abū Yaʿlā (no. 6858), al-Ṭaḥāwī in *Sharḥ Mushkil al-Āthār* (no. 4485), Ibn Qāniʿ in *Muʿjam al-Ṣaḥābah* 3/110, al-Ṭabarānī in *al-Kabīr* 20/(734) and in *al-Awsaṭ* (no. 2641), al-Ḥākim in *al-Mustadrak* 4/127–128, al-Bayhaqī in *al-Shuʿab* (no. 6718), and al-Mizzī in *Tahdhīb al-Kamāl* 30/459 — through multiple routes from Ibn Jurayj, from Sulaymān ibn Mūsā, from Waqqāṣ ibn Rabīʿah, with it. And Ibn Jurayj was a mudallis and he narrated it with ʿanʿanah. Al-Ḥākim said: "The chain is ṣaḥīḥ, and they did not record it." And al-Dhahabī agreed with him! It also has a mursal supporting witness from al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī in the works of Ibn al-Mubārak in *al-Zuhd* (no. 707), ʿAbd al-Razzāq (no. 21000), and Ibn Abī al-Dunyā in *al-Ṣamt* (no. 272). And it is a ṣaḥīḥ mursal.

And another one from the ḥadīth of Anas is found with Hannād in *al-Zuhd* (no. 1217), and its chain is weak.

His saying: "Whoever eats with a Muslim's leg" — i.e., eats because of backbiting him, or slandering him, or attacking his honor, or by subjecting him to harm before those who are hostile to him — for Allah will requite him for his evil deed by feeding him the like of it from the fire of Hell or its punishment. And *uklah* with ḍammah is "a morsel," and with fatḥah it is "a single time [of eating] with completeness."

His saying: "Whoever elevates a man to a position of reputation…" — the *bāʾ* in "bi-rajul" may be transitive, in which case its meaning is: whoever elevates a man to a position of reputation and ostentation, describing him as righteous, pious, and possessed of miracles, and making him well-known for these, and using him as a means to attain his own goals and the ephemeral goods of this world — then Allah will elevate him =