Abī Kathīr from Zayd ibn Sallām is established, because the report states that ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Hadramī narrated it to Zayd. Yet Yahyā ibn Abī Kathīr was among the narrators who concealed intermediaries in transmission, and he did not state that he had heard this from Zayd ibn Sallām.

I heard al-Dārimī, Ahmad ibn Sa‘īd, say that ‘Abd al-Samad ibn ‘Abd al-Wārith had narrated to them, stating that his father had narrated to him from Husayn al-Mu‘allim, who said: ‘When ‘Abd Allāh ibn Burayda came to us, I received word from Matar