The best of them in soul, and the best of them in household." (1)

This is a good (ḥasan) hadith.

And ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith: he is Ibn Nawfal.

3935 - Maḥmūd ibn Ghaylān narrated to us, saying: Abū Aḥmad narrated to us, saying: Sufyān narrated to us, from Yazīd ibn Abī Ziyād, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥārith, from al-Muṭṭalib ibn Abī Wadāʿah, who said:

Al-ʿAbbās came to the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, and it was as if he had heard something. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, stood upon the minbar and said: "Who am I?" They said: "You are the Messenger of God, peace be upon you." He said: "I am Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib. Indeed, God created the creation and placed me among the best of them. Then He made them into two groups, and placed me in the best of them as a group. Then He made them into tribes, and placed me in the best of them as a tribe. Then

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(1) A ḥasan hadith due to corroboration (ḥasan li-ghayrihi), and this chain is weak due to the weakness of Yazīd ibn Abī Ziyād — who is al-Hāshimī al-Kūfī — and he was inconsistent in its chain as we have explained in "al-Musnad" regarding the hadith of al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, no. (1788), and the hadith of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib — and it is said: al-Muṭṭalib — ibn Rabīʿah, no. (17517).

And it follows in what comes after it.

And it is corroborated by the hadith of Wāthilah ibn al-Asqaʿ mentioned previously.

And his saying: "a stumble (kabwah) of the earth": He said in "al-Nihāyah" 4/146: Shammar said: We have not heard of al-kubwah, but we have heard al-kibā and al-kubah, which is the refuse and dirt that is swept from the house.

And someone else said: al-kubah is among the defective nouns; its origin is kubwah, like qulah and thubah, whose origins are qulwah and thubwah.