Explaining the anomaly of the addition: (Indeed, You do not break Your promise).

The Shaykh : ... for students of knowledge in general, and for students of the terminology of hadith in particular.
We give an example to understand this statement; it is said regarding a certain hadith: "It was narrated by so-and-so and so-and-so, and its origin is in Sahih al-Bukhari"; meaning: this hadith in its entirety is not in Sahih al-Bukhari, but its origin—that is, a portion of it, especially the majority of its beginning—is in Sahih al-Bukhari, whereas in its entirety it is with the one to whom the hadith is attributed in full, but its origin is in Sahih al-Bukhari. We give a clarifying example that alerts many people who do not care about performing the recitations and dhikr that came from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him); they do not care to mention them as they came, without addition or subtraction. It is well known of these people that when they are reminded that there is an addition in the narration, dhikr, or supplication you mentioned that is not established, they say to you: "My brother, what is the harm? An addition of good is good." An example of this is what many people fall into: he (peace and blessings be upon him) said—and the hadith is in Sahih al-Bukhari—from the hadith of Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: . This is how the hadith is in Sahih al-Bukhari, and this is how the hadith is in other than one book of the books of Imam al-Bukhari, for example, the book "Creation of the Actions of Servants" by Imam al-Bukhari. This hadith came in al-Bayhaqi's Sunan al-Kubra, and through the route of Imam al-Bukhari, with an addition at the end of the supplication, which is: . And you hear people today adhering to this addition to the extent that hardly anyone stops at his (peace and blessings be upon him) saying: ; they do not stop here, but they add: . If we want to say in the takhrij of this hadith: "Imam al-Bayhaqi narrated it in his Sunan, and its origin is in Sahih al-Bukhari"; this is its example; meaning: that the addition does not exist in Sahih al-Bukhari. And so, measure and understand this phrase that the questioner mentioned, quoting al-Hafiz al-Iraqi.

The questioner: Meaning the addition... is the addition not established; is it?

The Shaykh: The addition is shadh (anomalous), and we have evidence for this that we discussed in detail, I think, in Irwa' al-Ghalil. But what comes to my mind as I answer this question is that the hadith, as you heard just now, was narrated by al-Bukhari in his Sahih, and he also narrated it in "Creation of the Actions of Servants." Why did I mention the book "Actions of Servants," which is not from the Sahih, and in which he narrates what is authentic and what is not authentic, like his other books in which he did not commit to authenticity, such as his famous book "Al-Adab al-Mufrad" by Imam al-Bukhari; he narrates what is authentic and what is not authentic? Why did I mention it in addition to my saying: "Al-Bukhari narrated it in his Sahih, and he also narrated it in his book 'Creation of the Actions of Servants'?" To draw attention to the fact that in both books, the hadith did not come with this addition that al-Bayhaqi narrated in his Sunan through the route of al-Bukhari himself, or perhaps I am correcting myself now: through the route of al-Bukhari's shaykh. Al-Bukhari's narration of this hadith in his two books without the addition is one of the evidences that this addition is not established. It is narrated in al-Bayhaqi's Sunan, but it is shadh (anomalous); because al-Bukhari in his two books, and because Imam Ahmad also narrated this hadith without the addition, and many narrators or imams extracted the hadith as it came in Sahih al-Bukhari and in "Creation of the Actions of Servants." So the hadith is valid without the addition. If the one who mentions the hadith with the addition attributes it to al-Bayhaqi, he may say: "Its origin is in Sahih al-Bukhari"; meaning: that this hadith exists in Sahih al-Bukhari, but not in this entirety. This is what a person says when the men do not help him to detail the speech. But the truth, and the truth must be said, is that such a speech is not narrated and does not satisfy to say: "Its origin is in Sahih al-Bukhari," which indicates the speaker's intention. Therefore, clarification drives away the Shaytan; instead of saying: "Its origin is in al-Bukhari," he says: "And it is in Sahih al-Bukhari without this addition." This is clearer and further from confusion and from misunderstanding the speech of this Imam who says: "So-and-so narrated it, and its origin is in Sahih al-Bukhari." So it is better to be explicit rather than to hint.