Siyar Aʿlām al-NubalāʾShams al‑Din al‑Dhahabi

Al-Nufaylī said, “He passed away in 136 AH.”
Muhammad ibn al-Muthannā held that he died in 132 AH.
ʿAttāb ibn Bashīr—and al-Bukhārī as well—placed his death in 137.
Abū ʿUbayd and Shabāb said it was in 138 AH.

Aḥmad also remarked, “He is not strong; he spoke in support of irjāʾ.”
Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān said, “We used to avoid Khuṣayf.”
ʿUthmān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṭarāʾifī said, “I saw Khuṣayf wearing black garments; he was then overseeing the public treasury.”

I say: his hadiths rise to the rank of fair (ḥasan).

I read to ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-Munʿim—on the authority of Zayd ibn al-Ḥasan—who informed us: Abū Bakr al-Anṣārī; who informed us: Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī; who informed us: ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad al-Zayyāt; Jaʿfar al-Firyābī narrated to us; Isḥāq ibn Rāhwayh narrated to us; ʿAttāb ibn Bashīr narrated to us, from Khuṣayf, from Abū ʿUbaydah, from his father, from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ:

“When you are uncertain in your prayer whether you have performed three or four [rakʿahs], and your stronger assumption is that you have completed four, perform two prostrations, then give the salām. If your stronger assumption is that you have prayed three, offer one [additional] rakʿah, then recite the tashahhud, then make the two prostrations of forgetfulness, and finally give the salām.” (1)

Were this narration sound, it would bring relief to those afflicted by obsessive misgivings in prayer.

(1) The chain of transmission is weak: it contains the unreliable narrator Khasif and is also broken, for Abu Ubayda never heard from his father. The report appears in Sunan Abi Dawud, no. 1028, Book of Prayer, chapter “Whoever completes the prayer based on what he thinks most probable,” transmitted through Khasif from Abu Ubayda. Abu Dawud himself judged it defective, noting that Abd al-Wahid, Sufyan, Sharik, and Israil all stopped the narration at Ibn Masud and did not attribute it to the Prophet.
قَالَ النُّفَيْلِيُّ: تُوُفِّيَ سَنَةَ سِتٍّ وَثَلاَثِيْنَ وَمائَةٍ. وَقَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بنُ المُثَنَّى: تُوُفِّيَ سَنَةَ اثْنَتَيْنِ وَثَلاَثِيْنَ. وَقَالَ عَتَّابُ بنُ بَشِيْرٍ، وَالبُخَارِيُّ: سَنَةَ سَبْعٍ. وَقَالَ أَبُو عُبَيْدٍ، وَشَبَابٌ: سَنَةَ ثَمَانٍ وَثَلاَثِيْنَ. وَقَالَ أَحْمَدُ أَيْضاً: لَيْسَ بِقَوِيٍّ، تَكَلَّمَ فِي الإِرْجَاءِ. وَقَالَ يَحْيَى القَطَّانُ: كُنَّا نَجتَنِبُ خُصَيْفاً. وَقَالَ عُثْمَانُ بنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الطَّرَائِفِيُّ: رَأَيْتُ عَلَى خُصَيْفٍ ثِيَاباً سُوداً، وَكَانَ عَلَى بَيْتِ المَالِ. قُلْتُ: حَدِيْثُه يَرتَقِي إِلَى الحَسَنِ. قَرَأْتُ عَلَى عُمَرَ بنِ عَبْدِ المُنْعِمِ، عَنْ زَيْدِ بنِ الحَسَنِ، أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو بَكْرٍ الأَنْصَارِيُّ، أَنْبَأَنَا أَبُو مُحَمَّدٍ الجَوْهَرِيُّ، أَنْبَأَنَا عُمَرُ بنُ مُحَمَّدٍ الزَّيَّاتُ، حَدَّثَنَا جَعْفَرٌ الفِرْيَابِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بنُ رَاهَوَيْه، حَدَّثَنَا عَتَّابُ بنُ بَشِيْرٍ، عَنْ خُصَيْفٍ، عَنْ أَبِي عُبَيْدَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيْهِ: عَنْ رَسُوْلِ اللهِ ﷺ: (إِذَا شَكَكْتَ فِي صَلاَتِكَ فِي ثَلاَثٍ أَوْ أَرْبَعٍ، وَأَكْبَرُ ظَنِّكَ عَلَى أَرْبَعٍ، سَجَدْتَ سَجْدَتَيْنِ، ثُمَّ سَلَّمْتَ، وَإِنْ كَانَ أَكْبَرُ ظَنِّكَ عَلَى ثَلاَثٍ، فَصَلِّ رَكْعَةً، ثُمَّ تَشَهَّدْ، ثُمَّ اسْجُدْ سَجْدَتَيِ السَّهْوِ، ثُمَّ سَلِّمْ (١)) . لَوْ صَحَّ هَذَا، لَكَانَ فِيْهِ فَرَجٌ عَنْ ذَوِي الوَسوَاسِ.
(١) إسناده ضعيف لضعف خصيف، ولا نقطاعه، فإن أبا عبيدة لم يسمع من أبيه. وهو في سنن أبي داود (١٠٢٨) في الصلاة، باب: من يتم على أكبر ظنه عن خصيف، عن أبي عبيدة به وأعله أبو داود بأن عبد الواحد وسفيان وشريكا وإسرائيل أو قفوه على ابن مسعود، ولم يرفعوه

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