“Hannad narrated it from ʿAmr ibn Murrah ... Because of the multiplicity of these routes, the author indicated that it is good.”

I say: Rather, it is authentic, for it has an authentic mursal supporting report, recorded by Ahmad in al-Zuhd (pp. 5–6) through Jarir ibn Hazim, who said: I heard al-Hasan say: “Whenever food was brought to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, he would order that it be placed on the ground, and he would say ...” and then mentioned it.

Its chain of transmission is an authentic mursal. Al-Marwazi recorded the first part of it in Zawa'id al-Zuhd (995), through Ismaʿil ibn Muslim, from al-Hasan, with the same wording. Ahmad also recorded it (p. 5) through ʿAbdah ibn Ayman, from ʿAta ibn Abi Rabah, in a similar mursal report. Its narrators are trustworthy, apart from ʿAbdah ibn Ayman, whom I have not identified. Al-Bazzar also recorded it, as did Abu Nuʿaym through him in Akhbar Asbahan (2/273), from the hadith of Abd Allah ibn Umar, attributed to the Prophet, with the same wording, but without the second part.

545 — “The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, permitted lying in three cases: in war, in reconciling people, and in what a man says to his wife.”

(In another version: “A man’s conversation with his wife and a woman’s conversation with her husband.”)

Imam Ahmad recorded it (6/404): Hajjaj narrated to us: Ibn Jurayj narrated to us, from Ibn Shihab, from Humayd ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf, from his mother Umm Kulthum bint Uqbah, who said: and then mentioned it.

I say: This chain of transmission meets the criteria of the two Shaykhs, though they did not record it by this route, but rather through another route from al-Zuhri, as will follow. Imam Ahmad then said: Yunus ibn Muhammad narrated to us: Layth—that is, ibn Saʿd—narrated to us, from Yazid—that is, ibn al-Had—from Abd al-Wahhab, from Ibn Shihab, with the same wording.