Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr al-Mulayki.(1)

Chapter 91

3825 - Muhammad ibn Bashshar narrated to us, saying: Ibrahim ibn 'Umar ibn Abi al-Wazir narrated to us, saying: Zanfal ibn 'Abd Allah Abu 'Abd Allah narrated to us, from Ibn Abi Mulaykah, from 'A'ishah, from Abu Bakr al-Siddiq: that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, when he wanted to do something, would say: "O Allah, choose what is best for me and select for me."(2)

This is a gharib hadith; we know it only from the narration of Zanfal, and he is weak according to the scholars of hadith. He is called Zanfal ibn 'Abd Allah al-'Arafi, and he used to reside in 'Arafat. He was alone in narrating this hadith, and no one corroborates him in it.

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(1) This hadith and the editor's commentary on it have been placed here in its proper location from (S), and it does not appear in this location in the rest of our manuscript copies, nor in the copy of al-Mubarakfuri. It will be repeated by the editor under number (3861), where it is confirmed in all copies.
(2) Its chain is weak due to the weakness of Zanfal ibn 'Abd Allah al-'Arafi.
It was also recorded by Abu Bakr al-Marwazi in his "Musnad Abi Bakr" (44), al-Bazzar in his "Musnad" (59), Abu Ya'la (44), al-'Uqayli in "al-Du'afa'" 2/97, Ibn al-Sunni in "'Amal al-Yawm wa al-Laylah" (597), Ibn 'Adi in "al-Kamil" 3/1090, Tammam al-Razi in his "Fawa'id - its arrangement" (1590), al-Sahmi in "Tarikh Jurjan" p. 444, al-Quda'i in "Musnad al-Shihab" (1471), al-Bayhaqi in "Shu'ab al-Iman" (402), al-Baghawi (1017), and al-Mizzi in "Tahdhib al-Kamal" 9/395, all via the route of Zanfal ibn 'Abd Allah, with this chain.