Its chain of transmission is extremely weak, as al-Zaylaʿi states in Nasb al-Rāyah ⦗2/206⦘ and Ibn Ḥajar in al-Talkhīṣ ⦗4/626⦘. Al-Nawawī, in al-Khulāṣah, goes further and declares it “a baseless ḥadīth.”

A fuller discussion of its weakness may be consulted in Zād al-Maʿād ⦗1/170–171⦘, al-Bāʿith p. 75, and Silsilat al-Aḥādīth al-Ḍaʿīfah, no. 1001 in the third volume, which has only recently been published, praise be to Allah.

Let us not forget that there are other reports on this subject transmitted from narrators besides Ibn ʿAbbās, but their chains are likewise weak, for they revolve around narrators who are feeble or unknown. Al-Ḥāfiẓ judged all of them weak in Fatḥ ⦗2/341⦘, so consult it if you wish.

I have also discussed in detail the ḥadīth of Ibn Masʿūd and that of Abū Hurayrah in the aforementioned volume under numbers 1016 and 1017.

Accordingly, I found that, as previously mentioned, Ibn al-Humām turned away from