become too intimidated to say to the wrong-doer, “You are a wrong-doer,” then bid them farewell. (1)
Sufyān relates from Abū al-Zubayr, who said: “ʿAṭāʾ would send me ahead to Jābir so that I might accurately retain the hadith for the people.”
Al-Ḥasan ibn Saʿīd al-Khawlānī reported: Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr told us, Ibn Lahīʿah told us, from Abū al-Zubayr, who said: “I saw the four ‘ʿAbādilah’ retreating on the balls of their feet during prayer: Ibn ʿUmar, Ibn ʿAbbās, Ibn al-Zubayr, and ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr.” (2)
Yaḥyā added: “He—that is, Ibn Lahīʿah—had met al-Layth and Mufaḍḍal ibn Faḍālah.”
Hushaym transmits from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir, who said: “One of us would come to the pool while in a state of major ritual impurity and would bathe off to one side.” (3)
Muʿāwiyah ibn ʿAmmār narrates from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ entered Mecca wearing a black turban, not in a state of pilgrimage.” (4)
A reliable narrator reports from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade accepting payment for a dog or a cat.” (5)
Ḥammād ibn Salamah relates from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir: “On the day of Khaybar we slaughtered horses.” (6)
(1) The chain is weak because it is disconnected: Abu az-Zubayr never heard directly from Abd Allah ibn Amr. The report is found in the Musnad 2/163 and 2/190. Al-Hakim graded it sound and the author followed him in his Mukhtasar, but this judgment is mistaken.
(2) Ibn Luhayah is a weak transmitter.
(3) The isnad involves the tadlis (concealed transmission) of Hushaym and Abu az-Zubayr.
(4) Related by Muslim (1358) in the Book of Hajj, chapter “The permissibility of entering Mecca without ihram.” The chain includes the tadlis of Abu az-Zubayr, yet the same chapter contains a supporting narration from Amr ibn Hurayth in Muslim (1359).
(5) Reported by Muslim (1569) through the route of Maqil from Abu az-Zubayr, who said: “I asked Jabir about the price of a dog and a cat; he replied: The Prophet ﷺ forbade that.” This wording explicitly shows that Abu az-Zubayr heard the hadith from Jabir.
(6) Reported by Muslim (1941) (no. 37) in the Book of the Two Eids and Sacrificial Animals, chapter “On eating horse meat.” Here Abu az-Zubayr openly states that he heard it from Jabir; therefore the hadith is authentic. The same subject is also narrated from Asma in Muslim (1942).