Zaynab bint Abī Salamah, who then informed him that she had heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
Ḥabīb al-Muʿallim narrates—from ʿAmr, from his father, from his grandfather, ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr—that the Prophet ﷺ said: “Those who attend the Friday prayer are of three kinds: one who listens carefully and supplicates, one who engages in idle talk, and one who sits silent.” (1)
Al-Awzāʿī said: ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb related this to me while Makḥūl was seated nearby.
Nuʿaym ibn Ḥammād reported: ʿAbd al-Razzāq told us, from Maʿmar, that he heard Ayyūb say to Layth ibn Abī Sulaym, “Hold fast to what you heard from Ṭāwūs and Mujāhid, and beware of the ‘sacks’ of Wahb ibn Munabbih and ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, for both of them are men of notebooks—that is, they transmit from written pages.” (2)
Ibn Ḥibbān said: Abū Yaʿlā narrated to us, Kāmil ibn Ṭalḥah narrated to us, Ibn Luhayʿah narrated to us—from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, from his father, from his grandfather—a lengthy collection, yet we disclaim responsibility for anything handed down by Ibn Luhayʿah.
He added: Among its contents is that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Allah has added for you a prayer, so safeguard it: it is the witr.” (3)
(1) Its chain is Hasan (reliable). It was recorded by Abu Dawud (no. 1113), Prayer, chapter “Speech while the imam is preaching,” through the isnad of Musaddad and Abi Kamil, from Yazid, from Habib al-Muallim, from Amr ibn Shuayb, from his father, from Abd Allah ibn Amr. The Prophet ﷺ said: “Three kinds of people attend the Friday prayer: one comes and indulges in idle talk, and that is all he gets from it; another comes and offers supplication—he is a man who petitions Allah, Exalted be He, Who gives if He wills and withholds if He wills; and a third comes listening attentively and silently, neither stepping over a Muslim’s neck nor harming anyone. For him it is an expiation until the next Friday plus three additional days, for Allah, the Exalted, says: ‘Whoever brings a good deed shall have ten times its like.’”
(2) There is a significant difference between what Amr ibn Shuayb relates directly from the notebook of his grandfather Abd Allah ibn Amr—wherein he recorded what he heard from the Prophet ﷺ—and what Wahb ibn Munabbih transmits from the altered, chainless books of the People of the Scripture, which contain many repudiated reports, weak tales, and fabricated stories.
(3) Al-Daraqutni (p. 174) also transmitted the hadith through Muhammad ibn Ubayd Allah al-Arzami, and Ahmad (2/180, 206) through al-Hajjaj and al-Muthanna ibn al-Sabbah—each of whom is weak—from Amr ibn Shuayb, from his father, from …