Miscellaneous by Al-Albani-265

The Shaykh : And the best of guidance is the guidance of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), and the worst of matters are those that are newly invented, and every newly invented matter is a religious innovation, and every religious innovation is misguidance, and every misguidance is in the Fire.
Our previous lesson in the book al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib reached the twenty-seventh hadith in my copy, which is his statement (may Allah have mercy on him): "It was narrated from Fudalah ibn 'Ubayd (may Allah be pleased with him) that he heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) say Blessed is the one... may he be happy, or may he have a tree in Paradise, for it is a glad tidings for him that he is among the people of Paradise, the one who is not given a scanty provision nor an excessive one, and this is not against his will, but rather due to the contentment in his soul, as he said meaning he was satisfied with what Allah (Mighty and Majestic) apportioned for him, as came in the authentic hadith And similar to this hadith is the hadith that follows it. However, the first hadith was narrated by al-Tirmidhi, who said: It is a good, authentic hadith, and by al-Hakim, who said: It is authentic according to the conditions of Muslim. There is some leniency or oversight in this citation, because there are narrators and compilers of this hadith who are of a higher rank than the second compiler of this hadith, namely al-Hakim. It is mentioned that the hadith was narrated by al-Tirmidhi and al-Hakim, whereas there is another compiler who is of a higher rank and purer in narration than al-Hakim, namely Ibn Hibban in his Sahih. His right, if he wanted to be concise in the citation, was to say: It was narrated by al-Tirmidhi and Ibn Hibban, if he wanted to satisfy himself with two citations. And if he added more, that is better. So it should have been said: It was narrated by al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Hibban, and al-Hakim. But this is something from which no one is safe; one may miss a compiler, so there is no harm in adding this third compiler, namely Ibn Hibban in his Sahih, to the compilers mentioned in the book.