Its chain of transmission is authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs, as al-Hāfiz stated in al-Fath (10/69). He also attributed it to Ibn Abī Shaybah and Fawā’id ‘Alī ibn Harb al-Tā’ī. Elsewhere (4/410), al-Hākim claimed that the two Shaykhs had both included it! Al-Dhahabī concurred with him, but this was an error on their part.

It has a corroborating report traced back to the Prophet, narrated from Umm Salamah through a weak chain. She said:

“She prepared nabīdh. Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ arrived while the nabīdh was bubbling. He asked, ‘What is this?’

“I replied, ‘So-and-so fell ill, and it was prescribed for her.’ She said: ‘He struck it with his foot and broke it, and said…’”—then she related the aforementioned statement.

It was narrated by Ahmad in al-Ashriba (fol. 19/1), Ibn Abī al-Dunyā in Dhamm al-Muskir (fol. 5/1), and Abū Ya‘lā in his Musnad; and through him, by Ibn Hibbān in his Sahīh (1397), by way of Abū Ishāq al-Shaybānī, from Hassān ibn Mukhāriq, from her. Al-Haythamī said in al-Majma‘ (5/86):

“It was narrated by Abū Ya‘lā and al-Bazzār. Abū Ya‘lā’s narrators are narrators of the Sahīh, apart from Hassān ibn Mukhāriq, whom Ibn Hibbān declared trustworthy.”

I say: He included him in his book al-Thiqāt (1/21), saying:

“He narrated from Umm Salamah, and Abū Ishāq al-Shaybānī narrated from him.”

Ibn Abī Hātim also included him in his book (1/235) and said:

“He narrated from Umm Salamah, Abū ‘Abd Allah al-Jadalī, and Sa‘īd ibn Jubayr. Al-Shaybānī and Jābir ibn Yazīd ibn Rifā‘ah narrated from him.”

He mentioned neither criticism nor commendation of him, and no one apart from Ibn Hibbān declared him trustworthy. Ibn Hibbān’s leniency in declaring narrators trustworthy is well known. The man’s status is therefore unknown. Allah knows best.