حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَبِي ثَلْجٍ البَغْدَادِيُّ، صَاحِبُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ حَنْبَلٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ حَفْصٍ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حَاطِبٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ، عَنْ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: لَا تُكْثِرُوا الكَلَامَ بِغَيْرِ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ فَإِنَّ كَثْرَةَ الكَلَامِ بِغَيْرِ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ قَسْوَةٌ لِلْقَلْبِ، وَإِنَّ أَبْعَدَ النَّاسِ مِنَ اللَّهِ القَلْبُ القَاسِ

حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي النَّضْرِ قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو النَّضْرِ، عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حَاطِبٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ، عَنْ ابْنِ عُمَرَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ نَحْوَهُ بِمَعْنَاهُ

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى: هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ لَا نَعْرِفُهُ إِلَّا مِنْ حَدِيثِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ حَاطِبٍ‏

Book [36]: Chapters on zuhd
Chapter [61]: The prohibition of talking too much without the remembrance of Allāh

Ḥadīth [2411]: It is narrated on the authority of Ibn ‘Umar (may Allāh be pleased with them both) that he said: The Messenger of Allāh (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) said: “Do not talk too much without remembrance of Allāh. Indeed excessive talking without remembrance of Allāh hardens the heart. And indeed the furthest of people from Allāh is the harsh-hearted”

(Another chain) with a narration similar in meaning.

Abū ‘Īsā said: This ḥadīth is ḥasan gharīb, we do not know of it except from the narration of Ibrāhīm bin ‘Abdullāh bin Ḥaṭīb.

• Ḍa’īf at-Targhīb (1718 (2/241-242))
• Shu’ab al-Īmān (4600-4601 (7/28-29))
• Kanzul ‘Ummāl (1840 (1/427))
• Kanzul ‘Ummāl (1895 (1/439))
• ‘Umdatul Tafsīr [Aḥmad Shākir] (1/127)
• Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ (2276)
• Riyāḍuṣ Ṣāliḥīn (1518)

• Ḍa’īf al-Jāmi’ (6265 (1/904))
• Silsilah Aḥādīth aḍ-Ḍa’īfah (920 (2/321))

Grade:

Ṣaḥīḥ isnād by Shaykh Aḥmad Shākir (‘Umdatul Tafsīr)
Ḥasan isnād by Ḥāfiẓ Zubayr ʿAlī Za’ī (Sunan at-Tirmidhī & Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ)
Ḥasan gharīb by Imām at-Tirmidhī
a’īf by Shaykh al-Albānī (Sunan at-Tirmidhī, Ḍa’īf at-Targhīb, Ḍa’īf al-Jāmi’ & Silsilah Aḥādīth aḍ-Ḍa’īfah)