Usāmah related it in this form as a companion-statement (mawqūf), and his memory is weak.

2 – Through Anīs ibn Abī Yaḥyā, from his father, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, a report similar to Layth’s, except for the additional material found between the brackets.

It was recorded by al-Tirmidhī (2/144–145), al-Ḥākim (1/487), and Aḥmad (3/23, 91). Al-Tirmidhī remarked, “A ḥadith that is ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ (good and sound),” while al-Ḥākim declared, “Sound according to Muslim’s criteria,” and al-Dhahabī concurred.

Their judgment, however, is not entirely correct; the report is merely sound, not on Muslim’s conditions, for Muslim did not transmit anything from Anīs ibn Abī Yaḥyā or from his father, even though both are reliable.

His brother Muḥammad ibn Abī Yaḥyā corroborated him, transmitting from their father. Al-Ḥākim (2/334) recorded this corroboration and declared it sound, and al-Dhahabī commented, “Its chain is good.”

The ḥadith also has supporting evidence from a narration of Sahl ibn Saʿd, who said: “During the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ two men disputed about the mosque that was founded upon God-fearingness. One said, ‘It is the Messenger’s mosque,’ while the other said, ‘It is the mosque of Qubāʾ.’ They went to the Prophet ﷺ and asked him, and he replied, ‘It is this mosque of mine.’”

Aḥmad (5/331) recorded it as follows: Wakīʿ narrated to us; Rabīʿah ibn ʿUthmān al-Tamīmī narrated from ʿImrān ibn Abī Anas, from him.