303 — (It is narrated from Ibn Masʿūd that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Taking evil omens is shirk; taking evil omens is shirk; taking evil omens is shirk.” Ibn Masʿūd said: “There is none among us but… Yet Allah removes it through reliance upon Him.” Abū Dāwūd and al-Tirmidhī.) p. 236

Authentic. It is fully referenced in al-Ahādīth al-Sahīha (430). The words “Ibn Masʿūd said” are not found in Abū Dāwūd or al-Tirmidhī, nor in the works of any of the other scholars who transmitted the hadith and are listed in the cited source. The author merely took this from al-Mundhirī’s remarks in al-Targhīb (64/4) concerning the words, “There is none among us…” Following others, he therefore assumed that this was an interpolation in the hadith and that it was a statement of Ibn Masʿūd. There is no evidence for this. Rather, like the main part of the hadith, it is traced back to the Prophet. The details are given in the aforementioned source.

304 — (Hadith: “He is not one of us who calls to tribal partisanship; he is not one of us who fights out of tribal partisanship; and he is not one of us who dies adhering to tribal partisanship.” Abū Dāwūd.) p. 237.

Its chain is weak. Abū Dāwūd (512) and Ibn ʿAdī (folio 135/2) narrated it by way of Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Rahmān al-Makkī—that is, Ibn Abī Labība—from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Sulaymān, from Jubayr ibn Mutʿim, who reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said—and he then quoted it.

I say: This chain is weak due to two defects:

First: a break in the chain. Regarding ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Sulaymān, the scholars report that Abū Dāwūd said: “He did not hear from Jubayr ibn Mutʿim.”

Second: the weakness of Ibn Abī Labība. Al-Khazrajī said in al-Khulāsa: “Ibn Hibbān declared him trustworthy. His hadith amount to nothing.” In al-Mīzān it states: “Yahyā said: ‘His hadith amount to nothing.’ Al-Dāraqutnī said: ‘He is weak.’ Another critic said: ‘He is not strong.’” As for al-Hāfiz, all he said concerning him was: “He frequently omitted intermediaries from his chains”! That hardly addresses the issue!

Nevertheless, the hadith is sound in meaning, for Muslim (21/6) and others narrated from—