I say: Its transmitters are all reliable, as al-Mundhirī affirmed (4 / 177) and al-Haythamī followed him (3 / 13). The only point of debate concerns Shabīb ibn Bishr. For that reason Ibn Ḥajar, in Mukhtaṣar Zawāʾid al-Bazzār (1 / 349), remarked, “Shabīb was declared trustworthy,” while in al-Taqrīb he writes: “Truthful, but liable to make mistakes.” Accordingly, the chain is ḥasan—indeed, when what follows is taken into account, it reaches the level of ṣaḥīḥ.

ʿĪsā ibn Ṭuḥmān also narrated the report from Anas. Ibn Sammāk included it in the first section of his collection, folio 87 / 2 (manuscript). This ʿĪsā is reliable and is counted among al-Bukhārī’s narrators, as stated in Mughni al-Dhahabī. Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī adds: “Trustworthy; Ibn Ḥibbān went to excess in criticizing him, and the blame lies in what he rejected from someone else.” Thus the hadith is authentic; praise be to Allah.

It is further strengthened by a corroborating narration from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allah, transmitted through ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf, who said that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ declared:

“I have not forbidden weeping, but I have forbidden two foolish, sinful sounds: one at a time of rejoicing—idle amusement, vain play, and the pipes of Satan—and one at a time of calamity: the slapping of faces, tearing of garments, and the wail of Satan.”

Al-Ḥākim recorded this (4 / 40), as did al-Bayhaqī (4 / 69) and, in Shuʿab al-Īmān, 7 / 241 / 1063, 1064; Ibn Abī al-Dunyā cited it in Dhamm al-Malāhī, folio 159 /