Under the heading: “Those who are allowed to break the fast but must make up the days,” he cited:
“’Ubayd ibn Jubayr said: I boarded a boat with Abū Basrah al-Ghifārī from al-Fusṭāṭ in Ramadan. When the vessel set off, he brought his lunch forward and said, ‘Come and eat.’ I said, ‘Are we not still among the houses?’ Abū Basrah replied, ‘Are you turning away from the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ?’ It was narrated by Aḥmad and Abū Dāwūd, and its transmitters are trustworthy.”
I say: The author followed al-Shawkānī in this, yet the report deserves scrutiny from two angles:
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’Ubayd ibn Jubayr is an unknown narrator. Some say his father’s name was Ḥunayn; if that is so, the son is reliable.
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The man who relates from him is Kulayb ibn Dhuhl. Ibn Khuzaymah remarked, “I do not know him to be upright,” and al-Ḥāfiẓ, in al-Taqrīb, classed him as “soft in ḥadīth.”
Even so, the narration is supported by the next ḥadīth and by another report from Anas whose chain is sound, as I demonstrated in my treatise “Verifying the Ḥadīth on a Fasting Person’s Breaking His Fast after Setting Out on a Journey After Dawn,” which has been printed.
He also said: “Aḥmad, Abū Dāwūd, al-Bayhaqī and al-Ṭaḥāwī narrated—through Manṣūr al-Kalbī—that Dihyah ibn Khalīfah once departed from a village near Damascus and travelled roughly one stage toward al-Fusṭāṭ in Ramadan, whereupon he broke his fast … All the transmitters of the report are trustworthy except Manṣūr al-Kalbī, whom al-‘Ajlī declared reliable.”
I say: al-‘Ajlī’s accreditation is on the same level as that of Ibn Ḥibbān; hence al-Dhahabī and other critical scholars did not rely upon it here. Al-Dhahabī said in his biographical entry on him in al-Mīzān: