I heard Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ya'qub al-Hafiz, when Muhammad bin Ubayd asked him: Why did the two of them (Imam Bukhari and Muslim) leave the hadith of Safwan bin Assal altogether? He replied: Because of the corruption of the route (chain) leading to him. Imam al-Hakim says: By this Abu Abdullah meant the chain of Asim from Zirr, because both of them left Asim bin Bahdalah. As for Abdullah bin Salimah al-Muradi (whose kunyah is Abu al-Aliyah), he is one of the senior companions of Sayyiduna Ali and Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with them both); he took narrations from Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas, Jabir bin Abdullah and others, and Abu al-Zubayr al-Makki and a group of the Successors narrated from him.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "By Allah, he is not a believer! By Allah, he is not a believer! By Allah, he is not a believer!" It was said: O Messenger of Allah, who is that? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The neighbour whose neighbour is not safe from his mischief (and harm)." They asked: What is meant by his 'bawa'iq'? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "His evil." This hadith is sahih on the condition of the two Shaykhs, but they did not narrate it with these words; they only recorded the narration of Abu al-Zinad from al-A'raj from Abu Hurayrah, in which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "He will not enter Paradise whose neighbour is not safe from his mischief."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The Muslim is the one from whose tongue and hand the (other) Muslims are safe, and the believer is the one from whom people feel secure regarding their lives and their wealth." Both of them (Imam Bukhari and Muslim) agreed on recording a part of the hadith, "The Muslim is the one from whose tongue and hand the Muslims are safe", but they did not narrate this addition (about the believer), although it is sahih on the condition of Imam Muslim. In this hadith there is also another addition on the condition of Imam Muslim which both of them did not narrate.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The most complete believer is the one from whose tongue and hand the Muslims are safe." There is another sahih addition in it, on the condition of both of them, which they did not narrate.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Fadalah bin Ubayd (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said on the occasion of the Farewell Hajj: "Shall I not tell you who the believer is? (The believer is) the one from whom people feel secure regarding their wealth and their lives; the Muslim is the one from whose tongue and hand the Muslims are safe; the mujahid is the one who strives against his own self in obedience to Allah; and the emigrant (muhajir) is the one who abandons errors and sins." There is another addition in it on the condition of Imam Muslim which both of them did not narrate.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The believer is the one from whom people are safe; the Muslim is the one from whose tongue and hand the Muslims are safe; and the emigrant is the one who abandons evil. By the One in whose Hand is my soul, a servant will not enter Paradise whose neighbour is not safe from his mischief." In the text of this hadith there is also another sahih addition, free of narrators who have been criticised, which both of them did not narrate.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) addressed us in a sermon and said: "Beware of injustice, for injustice will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection. Beware of obscenity and foul speech. And beware of greed and miserliness, for those before you were destroyed only because of greed and miserliness: it commanded them to sever ties of kinship, so they severed them; it commanded them to be miserly, so they were miserly; and it commanded them to sin, so they fell into sin." Then a man stood up and said: O Messenger of Allah, which Islam is best? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "That the (other) Muslims are safe from your tongue and your hand." Then that man, or someone else, said: O Messenger of Allah, which emigration (hijrah) is best? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "That you abandon what your Lord dislikes." He (peace and blessings be upon him) (further) said: "Emigration is of two kinds: the emigration of the town-dweller (the settled person) and the emigration of the desert-dweller (the Bedouin). The emigration of the desert-dweller is that he responds when he is called (to jihad) and obeys when he is commanded; and the emigration of the town-dweller is the greater of the two in trial and the more excellent of the two in reward." Both of them (Imam Bukhari and Muslim) narrated the hadith of al-Sha'bi from Abdullah bin Amr in brief, but they did not narrate this hadith, although both of them are agreed on Amr bin Murrah and Abdullah bin al-Harith al-Najrani; and Abu Kathir Zuhayr bin al-Aqmar al-Zubaydi heard from Sayyiduna Ali and Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with them both) and the Companions after them. This very hadith is also found with Imam al-A'mash through Amr bin Murrah.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Ittaqu al-zulm" (Beware of injustice), and then the narrator mentioned the whole hadith. For these additions narrated from Abdullah bin Amr there is a sahih corroborating narration (shahid) on the condition of Imam Muslim, from the narration of Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Beware of obscenity and foul speech, for Allah Almighty does not love the one who is obscene and foul-mouthed. Beware of injustice, for it is the darkness of the Day of Resurrection. And beware of greed and miserliness, for it is what incited those before you, so that they shed blood, severed their ties of kinship, and made lawful what Allah had made sacred."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The believer is not one who taunts, nor one who curses, nor one who is obscene, nor one who is vulgar." This hadith is sahih on the condition of the two Shaykhs; they used all of these narrators as evidence, yet they did not narrate it. The most that can be said about it is that it is not found with the (general) students of al-A'mash, whereas Isra'il bin Yunus al-Sabi'i is the senior-most and leader of his students, and he shares many of al-A'mash's teachers with him, so his being alone (in narrating) this hadith is not grounds for rejecting it. This hadith also has another corroborating narration (shahid) on the condition of both of them.