Al-Dāraqutnī recorded it and expressed no judgment on its authenticity.

The wording preserved by the Four Sunan reads, “and twenty banī makhāḍ” instead of “banī labūn.” Yet the chain of the first version is stronger than that of the Four, because the latter contains Khashaf ibn Mālik al-Ṭāʾī—whom al-Dāraqutnī classified as an unknown narrator—and it also includes al-Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāʾah. End of quotation.

Al-ʿAsqalānī said in al-Talkhīṣ about this report—“the ḥadīth of Ibn Masʿūd”: It was transmitted as a report traced back to the Prophet by Aḥmad, the authors of the Sunan, al-Dāraqutnī and al-Bayhaqī.

Al-Dāraqutnī also narrated it in a version halted at the Companion through the route of Abū ʿUbaydah from his father, commenting: “This chain is fair (ḥasan).” He weakened the marfūʿ version on several grounds and deemed the narration of Abū ʿUbaydah the stronger.

As for the ḥadīth of ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, it was related by the five compilers—apart from al-Tirmidhī—and Abū Dāwūd remained silent about it. Al-Mundhirī noted: Its chain includes ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb; all those below him are reliable except Muḥammad ibn Rāshid al-Makḥūlī, whom Aḥmad, Ibn Maʿīn and al-Nasāʾī declared trustworthy, whereas Ibn Ḥibbān and Abū Zurʿah judged him weak. Al-Dāraqutnī said: “A weak ḥadīth, not established among the specialists,” and both al-Bayhaqī and al-Mundhirī graded it weak.

Al-Khaṭṭābī remarked: “I know of no jurist who has acted upon it.”

Glossary of ḥadīth terms
• khataʾ (mistake): When one says khaṭiʾa—he erred—the opposite of being correct. Here it refers to a legally accountable person who performs a lawful act but unintentionally strikes and kills a protected human being; likewise, the deliberate act of a child or a madman is treated as accidental.
• ḥiqqah: A she-camel that has entered its fourth year, so called because she has “earned the right” to be ridden and to carry a load.
• jadhʿah: A camel that has entered its fifth year, named so because the front of its teeth have fallen out.