(4/68, 5/380), through Ubayd Allah, from Nāfi, from Safiyya, from one of the wives of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who then related the hadith. Abū Bakr ibn Nāfi differed from him, narrating from Nāfi, from Safiyya, who said: “I heard Umar ibn al-Khattāb say”—and she then related the hadith as a report traced back to the Prophet. Al-Bukhārī narrated it in al-Tārīkh al-Saghīr (p. 162): Ibrāhīm ibn Hamzah narrated to me, saying: al-Darāwardī narrated to us from Abū Bakr ibn Nāfi with this chain.

I say: The narrators in this chain are trustworthy and are among Muslim’s narrators, apart from Ibrāhīm ibn Hamzah, who is al-Zubayrī. He is trustworthy and was one of al-Bukhārī’s teachers in his Sahīh. However, although this Abū Bakr was trustworthy, Ibn Maīn said of him: “There is nothing wrong with him.” On another occasion, he said: “He is nothing.” The discrepancy may therefore have arisen from him, or from al-Darāwardī, for he too was subject to some criticism. His name was Abd al-Azīz ibn Muhammad. Concerning this hadith of Umar, al-Haythamī said (5/117–118): “Al-Tabarānī narrated it in al-Awsat through his teacher Musab ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Hamzah al-Dahrī ( ! ), whom I do not know. The remaining narrators are narrators of the Sahīh.”

I say: The foremost hadith scholar, al-Bukhārī, corroborated him by likewise narrating from his father, Ibrāhīm ibn Hamzah. The correct nisba is al-Zubayrī, not al-Dahrī; the actual flaw is the conflicting narration, as I have explained. Al-Haythamī then cited it as a report from Ibn Umar traced back to the Prophet and said: “Al-Tabarānī narrated it in al-Awsat, and its narrators are trustworthy.”

I further say: Abd Allah ibn Wahb narrated it in al-Jāmi (p. 114): I heard Abd Allah ibn Umar narrate from Nāfi, from Ibn Umar, as a report traced back to the Prophet. This chain is weak because of this Abd Allah ibn Umar—namely, al-Umarī whose forename is in the non-diminutive form—for he was weak and had a poor memory. His brother Ubayd Allah (whose forename is the diminutive form) contradicted him, narrating from Nāfi, from Safiyya, from one of the wives of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, as Muslim narrated it. This is the correct version from Nāfi for this hadith. Allah knows best.

285—(He said: “Whoever goes to a soothsayer and believes what he says has disbelieved in what was revealed to Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him.” Al-Bazzār narrated it with a good, strong chain of transmission. p. 230

Authentic. The author quoted the hadith, together with its source documentation, from al-Targhīb (4/52)