As for this hadith, if its transmission from ‘Amr ibn Thābit, who narrated it from ‘Abd Allāh (1), is established, then he is the one who fabricated it, for he was known for lying.

Abū Hātim ibn Hibbān said: “He narrates fabricated reports from reliable transmitters.” Yahyā ibn Ma‘īn said: “He is of no account.” On another occasion, he said: “He is neither reliable nor trustworthy.” Al-Nasā’ī said: “He is abandoned as a hadith narrator” (2).

The compiler said:
“As for Abū Hurayrah’s report, ‘Aqīl ibn al-Hasan al-‘Askarī informed us (3): Abū Muhammad Sālih ibn Abī al-Fath al-Shanāsī (4) narrated to us: Ahmad ibn ‘Amr ibn Hawsā’ narrated to us: Ibrāhīm ibn Sa‘īd al-Jawharī narrated to us: Yahyā ibn Yazīd ibn ‘Abd al-Malik al-Nawfalī (5) narrated to us, from his father, who said: Dāwūd ibn Farāhīj narrated to us, from ‘Imārah ibn Farw (6), from Abū Hurayrah—may Allah be pleased with him—and he related the report.”

The compiler said: “I abridged it from a lengthy hadith.”

I say: This is an obscure chain of transmission by which nothing can be established according to the scholars; rather, one can recognize