From the first supplementary phrase—“after the dawn prayer.” The same wording is found in the Musnad of al-Ṭiyālisī, though without the second addition. Al-Mundhirī likewise ascribed the ḥadith to al-Nasāʾī, yet I was unable to locate it in his collection; it is probably to be found in al-Yaum wa-l-Laylah or in his al-Sunan al-Kubrā.
The ḥadith is further supported by corroborating reports:
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Jābir: A man came into the mosque searching for a lost beast, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “May you never find it.” Al-Nasāʾī recorded it through Zayd ibn Abī Unaysah, from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir. Its chain is sound; all its transmitters are reliable, were it not for Abū al-Zubayr’s use of the ambiguous form “from.”
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Anas: a narration identical to that of Jābir. Al-Haythamī remarks in Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid: “Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Awsat with trustworthy transmitters, and al-Bazzār transmitted it with a weak chain.” Elsewhere he adds, “It includes Mūsā ibn ʿUbaydah al-Rabaḍī, and he is weak.”
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Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ: the same wording. Al-Haythamī states: “Al-Bazzār related it; in its chain are Abū Saʿīd al-Aghsham—whom I do not know—and al-Ḥajjāj ibn Arṭāʾah, a mudallis (one who conceals a transmitter).”
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ʿAbd Allah ibn Masʿūd: He said, “We were commanded that, whenever we saw someone announcing a lost animal in the mosque, we should say to him, ‘May you never find it.’” Al-Bazzār narrated it, and its transmitters are those of the Ṣaḥīḥ collections except for Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Samurah, who