Al-Bukhārī also cites in the collection entitled “The Weak Narrators” compiled by Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb ibn ʿAbbād a chain going through Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd, Ismāʿīl, Isrāʾīl, Abū Isḥāq, al-Ḥārith, and ʿAlī, back to the Prophet ﷺ:

“The groaning of the sick person is his glorification of God, his outcry is his profession of ‘there is no deity but God,’ his sleep is an act of worship, his breath is charity, and his turning from side to side is combat against his enemy…,” and so on.

This ḥadith is exceedingly denounced (munkar); I do not think Isrāʾīl ever narrated it.

I have given a full biographical entry for al-Ḥārith in Mīzān al-Iʿtidāl (1), and I remain perplexed about him.

He died in 65 AH, in Kūfa.

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Shāfiʿī informed us, from ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad, who said: Tamīm ibn Abī Saʿīd told us, who said: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān told us, who said: Abū ʿAmr ibn Ḥamdān told us, who said: Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī related to us, who said: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar narrated to us, who said: Ḥammād ibn Zayd narrated to us, from Mujālid, from al-Shaʿbī, from al-Ḥārith, from ʿAlī, who said:

“Muḥammad ﷺ cursed the devourer of usury, the one who pays it, its two witnesses, its scribe; the woman who tattoos and the woman who asks to be tattooed; the temporary husband (ḥallāl) and the one for whom it is contracted; and the withholder of the prescribed alms. He also forbade wailing.” (2)

Mujālid is likewise soft (i.e., a weak narrator).