Sadaqah ibn Khālid (he then cited the chain of transmission up to Abū Mālik al-Asharī, may Allah be pleased with him, who heard the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, say): “There will surely be among my nation people who deem fornication, silk, wine, and musical instruments lawful. Some people will surely settle beside a mountain, and their herdsman will return to them in the evening with their livestock. A man—meaning a poor man—will come to them with a need, but they will say, ‘Come back to us tomorrow.’ Allah will then destroy them during the night, bring the mountain down upon them, and transform others into apes and swine until the Day of Resurrection” (1).

Ibn Hazm (2) claimed that this hadith is disconnected because the chain between al-Bukhārī and Sadaqah ibn Khālid is not continuous (3). The eminent scholar Ibn al-Qayyim refuted him and demonstrated that Ibn Hazm’s claim is false on six grounds (4):

1 — Al-Bukhārī met Hishām ibn Ammār and heard from him. Thus, whenever he narrated from him using the formula “from,” the report was unanimously regarded as connected, since their contemporaneity and direct transmission were established. Accordingly, there is no difference whatsoever between his saying, “Hishām said,” and his saying, “from Hishām.”