Authentic. Al-Bukhārī (3/486–487) and likewise Muslim (5/153) narrated it from Umar ibn al-Khattāb (may Allah be pleased with him).

469 — (The hadith: “Whoever harms a protected non-Muslim has harmed me, and whoever harms me has harmed Allah.” Al-Tabarānī narrated it in al-Awsat with a good chain.) p. 329.

This wording has no basis, either in al-Tabarānī’s works or elsewhere. I do not know where the author obtained it, attributed it to al-Tabarānī, and described its chain as good; none of that has any basis. Rather, the original hadith reads: “Whoever harms a Muslim…” and so on. This is how al-Suyūtī cited it in al-Jāmi al-Kabīr and al-Jāmi al-Saghīr, as did al-Ajlūnī in Kashf al-Khafā and others. This is the version narrated by al-Tabarānī in al-Awsat (1/52/1) and also in al-Saghīr (p. 95), as well as by al-Rāfiī in his hadith collection (no. 21—in my copy), through Mūsā ibn Khalaf al-Ammī al-Wāsitī, from al-Qāsim ibn Muhammad al-Ijlī, from Anas ibn Mālik, who said:

“While the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was delivering a sermon, a man came, stepping over people’s necks, until he sat near the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had completed the prayer, he said, ‘What prevented you, so-and-so, from attending the Friday prayer?’ He replied, ‘O Messenger of Allah, I was intent on seating myself where you see me.’ He said, ‘I saw you stepping over people’s necks and harming them. Whoever harms a Muslim…’” to the end of the hadith. Al-Tabarānī said:

“No one narrated it from Anas except al-Qāsim al-Ijlī al-Basrī, and no one narrated it from him except Mūsā ibn Khalaf.”

I say: He is truthful, though prone to errors, as stated in al-Taqrīb. Al-Haythamī declared the report defective because of his teacher al-Ijlī. After citing it from both collections, he said (2/179):

“Its chain contains al-Qāsim ibn Mutayyib. Ibn Hibbān said: He made many errors and therefore deserved