3109 - ‘Īsā ibn Ḥammād informed us, saying: al-Layth narrated to us, from Ibn ‘Ajlān, from Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Two will not be gathered together in the Fire: a Muslim who killed a disbeliever and then remained steadfast and sought to do right; and two will not be gathered together in the belly of a believer: dust in the path of Allah and the scorching heat of Hell; and two will not be gathered together in the heart of a servant: faith and envy."(1)

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= And al-Ḥākim [recorded it] in 4/260 and declared its chain of transmission authentic via the route of Ja‘far ibn ‘Awn, both from al-Mas‘ūdī, with it, raised to the Prophet, and Ja‘far ibn ‘Awn heard from al-Mas‘ūdī before his confusion [of memory], as in "al-Kawākib al-Nayyirāt" p. 293. Likewise, the hearing of Abū ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Muqri’ from him was before the confusion on the most probable view, for he was in Baṣrah and taught the Qur’an there for thirty-six years, and whoever heard from him in Kūfah and Baṣrah, his hearing is sound, as in "al-Tahdhīb."

And Wakī‘ in "al-Zuhd" (23) brought out the first part of it from al-Mas‘ūdī, with it, as a stopped narration, and he paired al-Mas‘ūdī with Mis‘ar, and Wakī‘ heard from al-Mas‘ūdī before the confusion.

And al-Dāraquṭnī mentioned in "al-‘Ilal" 4/261-262 the disagreement concerning al-Mas‘ūdī regarding its raising [to the Prophet] and stopping [at a Companion], and he did not give preponderance to one over the other.

And it preceded before this with a sound chain of transmission via the route of Mis‘ar, from Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, with it, as a stopped narration, and it is in the ruling of a raised narration, because it is not the kind of thing said by personal opinion, and the hadiths following after it are to be considered.

(1) Its chain of transmission is good on account of Ibn ‘Ajlān — and he is Muḥammad — for he is truthful, of good hadith, and he was followed in part of it, and the rest of its narrators are trustworthy. Al-Layth: he is Ibn Sa‘d, and Abū Ṣāliḥ: he is Dhakwān al-Sammān. And it is in "al-Sunan al-Kubrā" under numbers (4302) and (4360).

And Ibn Ḥibbān (4606) and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Mu‘jam al-Ṣaghīr" (410) brought it out via the route of ‘Īsā ibn Ḥammād, with this chain of transmission, without his statement in Ibn Ḥibbān's version: "Two will not be gathered together in the Fire: a Muslim who killed a disbeliever and then remained steadfast and sought to do right." Al-Ṭabarānī said: No one narrated it from Ibn ‘Ajlān except al-Layth.

And Aḥmad (8479) brought it out from Yūnus ibn Muḥammad al-Mu’addib, from al-Layth ibn Sa‘d, with it, and in his version: "faith and stinginess" instead of "faith and envy."

And his statement therein: "Two will not be gathered together in the Fire: a Muslim who killed a disbeliever and then remained steadfast" is authentic. Aḥmad (7575) and (8637) brought it out via the route of Ḥammād ibn Salamah, and Muslim (1891): (131) via the route of Abū Isḥāq al-Fazārī =