“Is there anything among Your creation stronger than iron?” He said: “Yes, fire.” They said: “O Lord, is there anything among Your creation stronger than fire?” He said: “Yes, water.” They said: “O Lord, is there anything among Your creation stronger than water?” He said: “Yes, wind.” They said: “O Lord, is there anything among Your creation stronger than wind?” He said: “Yes, the son of Adam, who gives charity with his right hand and conceals it from his left hand.”(1)

This is a strange hadith; we do not know it as raised (marfūʿ) except through this chain.

End of the Tafsīr.

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(1) Its chain is weak due to the unknown status of Sulaymān ibn Abī Sulaymān, the freed slave of Ibn ʿAbbās. Aḥmad recorded it (12253), and its full documentation is found therein. His statement: “he said with it upon it” means: he commanded and gestured toward its being and its settling upon it. Tuḥfat al-Aḥwadhī 9/216.