even though al-Nābulusī stated in al-Dhakhāʾir that it is found in the “Prayer” section of al-Tirmidhī’s Sunan. Yet I have still not located it, and Allah knows best. ⦗1⦘

Among the supporting reports is the narration from Anas. Ibn Mājah and al-Ḥākim recorded it through Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd al-Ṣāʿigh, from Thābit, from him. Al-Ḥākim commented, “It is a narration of unknown standing,” and that alone is sufficient to class it as weak. The flaw lies with this Sulaymān, for al-ʿUqaylī said, “No one follows him in his narrations.”

Another corroboration comes from Sahl ibn Saʿd al-Sāʿidī, likewise reported by the two of them, via Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Baṣrī, who said: “Yahyā ibn al-Ḥārith al-Shīrāzī—he was reliable, and ʿAbd Allāh Dāwūd used to commend him—told us; he said, ‘Zuhayr ibn Muḥammad al-Taymī and Abū Ghassān al-Madanī narrated to us from Abū Ḥāzim, from him.’” Al-Ḥākim judged it “authentic according to the criteria of the two shaykhs,” and al-Dhahabī agreed.

Both of them erred, however, because neither Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Baṣrī nor his teacher Yahyā ibn al-Ḥārith al-Shīrāzī belong to the transmitters employed by al-Bukhārī or Muslim. Furthermore, no one besides Ibn Ḥibbān declared the first of them trustworthy, and even he said, “He makes mistakes.”