It was also recorded by al-Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah—in a version longer than this—through the narration of Sufyan ibn ʿUyaynah from ʿAli ibn Zayd ibn Judʿan. Although the latter was a storehouse of knowledge, some of his reports are objectionable.
Al-Tirmidhi commented, “There is a degree of soundness (ḥusn) in this ḥadith, and—as you can see—it contains an explicit chain that goes back to ʿAli. The statement of Aḥmad ibn Hanbal regarding it has already been cited—Allah knows best.”
As for
– Hushaym ibn Abi Sasan Hisham, Abū ʿAlī al-Kufī *
• Kufan, with only a few narrations.
• Kunya: Abū ʿAlī.
• He related from: Umayy al-Ṣayrafī and Ibn Jurayj.
• Narrated from him: Qutaybah, Ibrāhīm al-Farrāʾ and Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj.
• Abū Ḥātim and others said: “His ḥadith is acceptable.”
77 – ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbbād ibn Ḥabīb, Abū Muʿāwiyah al-Azdi ** (ʿ)
The son of the governor al-Muhallab ibn Abī Ṣufrah; an Azdi, ʿAtaki, Muhallabi, Basran, a ḥāfiẓ and trustworthy narrator. His kunya was Abū Muʿāwiyah. He transmitted from Abū Jamrah al-Dubaʿī, ʿĀṣim ibn Sulaymān, Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, and a number of others.