Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Firyābī narrated to us; Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥajjāj al-Sāmī narrated to us; Ḥammād ibn Salamah narrated to us, from Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, from Abū Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him):
that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Three traits—whoever possesses them is a hypocrite, even if he fasts, prays, and claims to be a Muslim: when he speaks, he lies; when he makes a promise, he breaks it; and when he is entrusted, he betrays.”
This report is sound and of elevated isnād; it shows that these qualities are among the major sins.
Muslim also recorded it(1) through Abū Naṣr al-Tammār from Ḥammād ibn Salamah. Thus it reaches us with an alternative chain that is likewise elevated, in addition to the elevation it already enjoys in Muslim’s collection and in ours.
The highest form of such substitution (ibdāl) is when a ḥadīth is among the author’s loftiest chains, yet you encounter it through another isnād that is higher by one or more links—Allah knows best.
Isḥāq al-Asadī informed us; Yūsuf al-Ādamī (ḥ) and Aḥmad ibn Salāmah also informed us. They said: Abū al-Makārim al-Iṣbahānī informed us—Yūsuf affirming direct audition while the other reported by authorization—; Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād informed us; Abū Nuʿaym informed us; Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Dāwūd al-Makkī narrated to us; Ḥabīb, the scribe of Mālik, narrated to us; the nephew of al-Zuhrī narrated to us, from al-Zuhrī, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, from Ubayy ibn Kaʿb, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Gabriel said to me: ‘Let Islam weep over the death of ʿUmar.’”(2)
This ḥadīth is rejected (munkar). Ḥabīb is unreliable, and the link between Saʿīd and Ubayy is disconnected.
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mukhtār reported, from ʿAlī ibn Zayd, who said: Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab ibn Ḥazn told me that his grandfather Ḥazn came to the Prophet ﷺ, who asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “Ḥazn.”