, peace and blessings be upon him.” He said: “Al-Tabarānī narrated it in al-Kabīr and al-Awsat, except that his version reads, ‘and believes him.’ Al-Bazzār’s narration has the same wording, and the narrators of al-Kabīr and al-Bazzār are trustworthy.”

I say: Abū Nuaym also recorded it in al-Hilya (5/104) through Yahyā ibn Abd al-Hamīd, who said: Abū Khālid al-Ahmar narrated to us, from Amr ibn Qays, from Abū Ishāq, who said: Hubayra ibn Yarīm narrated to us, from Abdullah ibn Masūd, who said: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said—and he then cited the hadith.

He said:

“Al-Thawrī narrated the same from Abū Ishāq, while Alqama and Hammām ibn al-Hārith narrated it from Abdullah as a statement of his own.”

I say: The chain of this report traced back to the Prophet is weak because Abū Ishāq’s memory had deteriorated. Yahyā ibn Abd al-Hamīd—namely, al-Himmānī—is also weak. However, Abū Nuaym mentioned that al-Thawrī likewise narrated it from Abū Ishāq in the same form. If the chain through that route to al-Thawrī is sound, then the report is authentic. Elsewhere in al-Hilya (8/246), he cited it among al-Thawrī’s narrations through Yūsuf ibn Asbāt, who said: Sufyān al-Thawrī narrated to us, from Abū Ishāq al-Sabīī, from Saīd ibn Wahb, from Abdullah ibn Umar, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said—and he then cited the hadith. He added:

“It is singular among the narrations of al-Thawrī from Abū Ishāq, from Hubayra ibn Abī Yarīm (1), from Abdullah ibn Masūd.”

This is how it appears in the printed edition, although no chain through al-Thawrī, from Abū Ishāq, from Hubayra had previously been given. Could part of the text have been omitted?

291—(The Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him, says: “No habitual drinker of wine, believer in sorcery, or severer of kinship ties will enter Paradise.” Ibn Hibbān in his Sahīh.) p. 232

Good. Ibn Hibbān recorded it (1381) through Abū Harīz, from Abū Burda, from Abū Mūsā, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said—and he then cited the hadith.

(1) This is how it appears in these sources, but it is an error. The correct name of Hubayra’s father is “Yarīm,” on the pattern of azīm (“great”), as stated in al-Tahdhīb, al-Taqrīb, and other works.