“Al-Bazzār likewise transmitted it, and its chain is also sound.

Al-Ṭabarānī narrated the report as well—as cited in Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid—where al-Haythamī remarks: ‘The transmitters cited by Aḥmad and al-Bazzār are the very transmitters found in the Ṣaḥīḥ collections.’

Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī likewise recorded it through al-Rabīʿ ibn Ṣabīḥ, who said: ‘I heard ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ relate it with a similar wording.’

Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr comments: ‘There is disagreement regarding Ibn al-Zubayr—whether the report is traced back to the Prophet (marfūʿ) or stops with him (mawqūf). Those who transmit it as marfūʿ are more precise and reliable, and a statement of this kind is not said on the basis of personal opinion.’

ʿAṭāʾ has another chain for the same tradition: he relates it from Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh in marfūʿ form with the wording, “One prayer in the Sacred Mosque is better than one hundred thousand prayers elsewhere,” and the remainder of the report is identical.

Ibn Mājah, al-Ṭaḥāwī, and Aḥmad all recorded it by way of ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAmr al-Riqī, from ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Mālik, from him, with that wording; this chain is also sound, like the one before it. Al-Munḏirī says: ‘Aḥmad and Ibn Mājah transmit it with two sound chains.’

That wording, however, suggests that there are two distinct routes from Jābir, which is not the case. Had he simply said ‘with a sound chain’—as is the usual practice—his phrasing would have been more accurate and less misleading. Al-Ḥāfiẓ says:”} – end of translation }