The musalsal hadith contain an intimacy which distinguishes it in comparison to [all] other hadith. For when I see that I have [mutually] shaken hands [muṣāḥafah] with an individual who has shaken hands with someone, who in turn has shaken hands with someone, [this act of] tracing back [all the way] to the Messenger of Allah , I then visualize my hand connecting and shaking the hand of the Messenger of Allah . There is for the soul in this, an intimacy and a good fortune which is not found in the rest of the hadith