Muhammad said: Abu Idris did not hear anything from ‘Umar. (1)

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(1) Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar said in *Nata’ij al-Afkar*, pp. 240–241, after quoting al-Tirmidhi’s statement from his words “And Zayd ibn al-Hubab was contradicted” up to this point: I say: the disagreement and error are from his shaykh Ja‘far ibn Muhammad, for Abu Bakr and ‘Uthman, the two sons of Abi Shaybah, and others agreed in narrating it from Zayd ibn al-Hubab correctly, with the affirmation of ‘Uqbah ibn ‘Amir and Jubayr ibn Nufayr. As for the narration of ‘Abdullah ibn Salih, I have cited it in full; and as for the narration of others, perhaps he means Ibn Mahdi and Ibn Wahb, or both of them together. I have mentioned those who transmitted it from each of them, and I have also cited it in full from the narration of al-Layth, from Mu‘awiyah ibn Salih.

We have expanded the discussion on the takhrij of the chains of this hadith and repelled the disorder attributed to it in our commentary on *al-Musnad* (17314) and (17393), so refer to it necessarily.

Then al-Hafiz said concerning the addition found with al-Tirmidhi, namely “O Allah, make me among the oft-returning to repentance, and make me among those who purify themselves”: This addition is not established in this hadith, for Ja‘far ibn Muhammad, al-Tirmidhi’s shaykh, was alone in narrating it, and he did not master the chain of transmission, for he dropped between Abu Idris and ‘Umar both Jubayr ibn Nufayr and ‘Uqbah, making it disconnected—rather, problematic. Everyone who narrated it from Mu‘awiyah ibn Salih, then from Zayd ibn al-Hubab, contradicted him. And besides those already mentioned, the following narrated it from Zayd: Musa ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Masruqi—his hadith is in al-Nasa’i 1/95—and Abu Bakr al-Ju‘fi, and ‘Abbas ibn Muhammad al-Duri—their hadith is in Abu ‘Awanah 1/224–225—and Abu Kurayb Muhammad ibn al-‘Ala’, whose hadith is in Abu Nu‘aym’s *al-Mustakhraj*. The agreement of all of them takes precedence over the sole narration of one.

Al-Hafiz said: And I found a supporting witness for the addition from the hadith of Thawban. He mentioned it via the chain of Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn Harun (and Ibn al-Sunni (32) from him), from al-Husayn ibn ‘Ali ibn Yazid al-Suda’i: my father narrated to us, from Abu Sa‘d al-A‘war al-Baqqal, from Abu Salamah—he is Ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman—from Thawban, raised to the Prophet: “Whoever performs ablution and does it well, then says upon its completion: ‘There is no god but Allah alone, with no partner, O Allah, make me among the oft-returning to repentance, and make me among those who purify themselves,’ Allah opens for him eight gates of Paradise, and he enters through whichever of them he wishes.” =