Likewise, Shaykh al-Tuwayjiri keeps silent about it in more than one place in his book (pp. 227 and 233), thereby implying that it lends support to the first ḥadith—yet even beginners in this science know that a chain this ruined can never serve for corroboration. So are they truly aware of that, or are they people who merely gather wood and pass on whatever reaches them? Either way, it leaves a bitter taste.

Hadith 4 – From al-Faḍl ibn ʿAbbās:
(Weak) “I was riding behind the Prophet ﷺ when a Bedouin, accompanied by his beautiful daughter, began offering her to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ in the hope that he would marry her. I kept turning to look at her, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ would take hold of my head and turn it away.”

Abū Yaʿlā recorded it in his Musnad (12/97) through Ṭarīf, from Yūnus ibn Abī Isḥāq, from Abū Isḥāq, from Saʿīd ibn Jubayr, from Ibn ʿAbbās, from him.

I say: This isnād is weak. Its transmitters are reliable, yet the wording is objectionable, and it suffers from five defects:

1. Abū Isḥāq al-Sabīʿī gives it with an ambiguous link (ʿanʿana), and he was a mudallis.
2. He later became confused in narration; his reports are acceptable only if they pre-date that confusion and he explicitly says “I heard”—neither of which is present here, the first for reasons that will follow and the second for what has already been noted.
3. There is some softness in his son Yūnus, and that weakness may be specific to what he relates from his father.

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