from Raqabah, from Qays ibn Muslim, in the chapter “The Beginning of Creation” (1). Yet one narrator has slipped out between ʿĪsā and Raqabah—he is Abū Ḥamzah al-Sukkari—and Ghunjar never met Raqabah.

Ghunjar died at the end of the year 186 AH.

al-Dāraqutnī said: “Ghunjar is of no value.”

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad and Fāṭimah bint ʿAlī informed us, saying:
“ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad related to us; Ibn al-Ḥuṣayn related to us; Ibn Ghaylān related to us; Abū Isḥāq al-Muzakkī related to us; Aḥmad ibn Ḥamdūn ibn Rustum related to us. He said:
‘I said in Balkh to Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl al-Bukhārī: “ʿĪsā ibn Mūsā Ghunjar has narrated to you—he narrated to us Abū Ḥamzah al-Sukkari, from al-Aʿmash, from Ayyūb, from Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, from Abū Hurayrah, who said:
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ‘None of you must call grapes al-karm, for the real karm (2) is the heart of the son of Adam.’ ”
He acknowledged it and said, “Yes.” ’ ”

This report is singular: no one transmits it from al-Aʿmash, from Ayyūb, other than Abū Ḥamzah, and no one relates it from Abū Ḥamzah except Ghunjar.

We have obtained it with an elevated chain.

Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in his Muʿjam, through Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Rāzī, who said: Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Muʾaddib narrated to us; he said: My father narrated to us; he said: Ghunjar narrated to us.