ʿAmr, who said: al-Hasan ibn Sālih narrated to us, from Ibrāhīm al-Hajarī, from Abū al-Ahwas, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said—and he cited the hadith. He said:

“This is singularly narrated through al-Hasan and al-Hajarī.”

I say: Al-Hajarī, whose name was Ibrāhīm ibn Muslim, was somewhat weak in hadith. Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAmr al-Bajalī was likewise somewhat weak. However, it has another route. Al-Dāraqutnī narrated it (p. 300) through ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān: Abū Shihāb informed us, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Wāʾil, from ʿAbd Allāh. Al-Bazzār also narrated it through this route and said: “Abū Shihāb alone narrated it.”

I say: He was trustworthy and one of the narrators used by al-Bukhārī and Muslim. He was the elder Abū Shihāb, whose name was Mūsā ibn Nāfiʿ al-Asadī. However, the narrator from him, ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān al-Kalābī, was weak, as stated in al-Taqrīb. Yet Abū Shihāb was not alone in narrating it, for al-Haythamī said in al-Majmaʿ (4/172): “Al-Bazzār and Abū Yaʿlā narrated it. Its chain includes Muhammad ibn Dīnār, whom Ibn Hibbān and a number of others declared trustworthy, while another group declared him weak. The remaining narrators in Abū Yaʿlā’s chain are trustworthy. Al-Bazzār’s chain includes ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān al-Kalābī, whom Ibn Hibbān declared trustworthy, while al-Azdī said: ‘Abandoned.’”

I say: It also has corroboration in a mursal report of ʿAtāʾ, attributed to the Prophet. Nuʿaym ibn Hammād narrated it in al-Fitan, as cited in al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr (2/14/2). Taken together, therefore, its routes render the hadith good, Allah willing.

346 — (Hadith: “Allah has cursed the one who consumes usury, the one who pays it, its two witnesses, and its scribe.” Narrated by Ahmad, Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī—who graded it authentic—al-Nasāʾī, and Ibn Mājah.) p. 256

Authentic. It is fully referenced in al-Irwāʾ (1336) from the hadith of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd. There I also cited supporting narrations from Jābir and Abū Juhayfah.