Another route comes via ʿAbd Allāh, from Abū al-Zinād, from al-Aʿraj, from him (Abū Hurayrah). All the transmitters in this isnād are regarded as reliable, and Aḥmad also recorded it (2/401).

A further chain runs through Kathīr ibn Zayd, from al-Walīd ibn Rabāḥ, from him. Al-Tirmidhī brought it (2/326, Būlāq ed.) and remained silent about it. The isnād is ḥasan: its narrators are trustworthy except for Kathīr ibn Zayd, who is truthful yet somewhat weak, as Abū Zurʿah said; in al-Taqrīb he is described as “truthful but makes mistakes.”

Among the remaining corroborations:

Third: ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (may Allah honour his face). Al-Tirmidhī (2/326) reports it by way of Salamah ibn Wardān, from Abū Saʿīd ibn al-Muʿallā, from both ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib and Abū Hurayrah together, and he declared it “a ḥasan ḥadīth.” His judgment is correct.

Fourth: Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh. Aḥmad recorded it (3/389): Suraij narrated to us; Hushaym narrated to us; ʿAlī ibn Zayd related it from Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, from him, as a marfūʿ report.