He also transmitted—through Muʿtamir, from his father, from Anas, from Abū Bakr—traced back to the Prophet ﷺ: “For every five camels one sheep is due.” In it he listed the legal alms on camels, yet the correct view is that it is a saying of al-Ṣiddīq (1), and scholars have likewise disagreed over Nuʿaym’s raising it to the Prophet.
Another of his reports comes via Rushdīn ibn Saʿd, from ʿAqīl, from Ibn Shihāb, from his father, from Abū Hurayrah, traced back to the Prophet ﷺ: “Had it been permissible for anyone to prostrate before another, I would have ordered a woman to prostrate to her husband” (2). No one else related this from Rushdīn except Nuʿaym.
He further narrated—through Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd, from Thawr, from Khālid ibn Maʿdān, from Wāthilah—that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “A worshipper without understanding is like a donkey tied to a millstone” (3).
Shu‘ayb – from his father – from his grandfather: recorded by Abu Dawud (1151, 1152); Ahmad 2/180; al-Tahawi 4/343; Ibn al-Jarud (262); and al-Darqutni 2/47-48.
It is also transmitted by Kathir b. ‘Abd Allah b. ‘Amr b. ‘Awf – from his father – from his grandfather ‘Amr b. ‘Awf: al-Tirmidhi (536); Ibn Majah (1279); al-Tahawi 4/344; al-Darqutni 2/48; al-Bayhaqi 3/286.
Other routes exist for the same report.
See Nasb al-Raya 2/216, 218. The hadith is sound when all its supporting chains are considered together.
(1) Reported by Abu Dawud (1567); Ahmad 1/11-12; al-Nasa’i 5/18; al-Darqutni 2/115; and al-Bayhaqi 4/86, through the route of Hammad b. Salama, who said: “I took this document from Thumama b. ‘Abd Allah b. Anas, from Anas b. Malik, stating that Abu Bakr had issued a written charter for him.”
Al-Hakim authenticated it (1/390, 392) and al-Dhahabi agreed. Al-Darqutni added: “Its chain is sound and every narrator is trustworthy.”
Al-Bukhari also recorded it (3/247-251, 254) via Muhammad b. ‘Abd Allah b. al-Muthanna al-Ansari: “My father narrated to me; Thumama b. ‘Abd Allah b. Anas narrated to me; Anas told him that Abu Bakr had written it for him.”
(2) Reported by al-Tirmidhi (1159) through the chain: Mahmud b. Ghailan – al-Nadr b. Shumayl – Muhammad b. ‘Amr – Abu Salama – Abu Hurayra – the Prophet.
The isnad is sound (hasan). It is corroborated by the hadith of Mu‘adh b. Jabal (Ahmad 4/381; 5/227-228; Ibn Majah 1853; Ibn Hibban 1290), the hadith of Qays b. Sa‘d (Abu Dawud 2140), and the hadith of ‘A’isha (Ahmad 6/76; Ibn Majah 1852). Hence the composite narration is authentic.
(3) Cited in Hilyat al-Awliya’ 5/219 through Muhammad b. Ibrahim b. al-‘Ala’ from Baqiyya with this isnad. Al-Darqutni branded Muhammad b. Ibrahim a liar, and Ibn ‘Adi said that most of his reports are unreliable; Baqiyya was a mudallis and used the ambiguous form “ ‘an.”