And it has another corroborating report from Jābir, traced back to the Prophet with the same wording.

Al-Ṭabarānī also recorded it in al-Awsaṭ. Its chain includes Abū Ẓabya, whose name was ʿĪsā ibn Sulaymān; Ibn Maʿīn declared him weak. Ibn ʿAdī cited several objectionable reports from him, while Ibn Ḥibbān included him in al-Thiqāt (The Reliable Narrators).

Note: The end of the hadith in the printed edition of al-Sunan (1/306, Būlāq edition) reads: “as great as the distance between east and west.” The wording I have established is more sound for several reasons:

First: it is the wording found in a corrected manuscript copy of al-Sunan, which is why I cited it from that copy. An indication of its soundness is that a marginal note states that another copy reads: “between east and west.”

Second: it is the wording transmitted from al-Sunan by al-Mundhirī in al-Targhīb, al-Tabrīzī in al-Mishkāt (2064), and al-Suyūṭī in al-Jāmiʿ.

Third: it agrees with Abū Ḥazm’s narration through the route found in al-Sunan.

Fourth: it conforms to the narrations in the hadiths of Abū al-Dardāʾ and Jābir. And Allah knows best.

564 — “Al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn are my two sweet basils in this world.”

Al-Bukhārī recorded it (7/79, 10/350—Fatḥ), as did al-Tirmidhī (4/369–370) and Aḥmad (2/92, 114), from Muḥammad ibn Abī Yaʿqūb, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Nuʿm, who said that a man asked Ibn ʿUmar—while I was seated—about mosquito blood that gets on a garment. Ibn ʿUmar asked him, “Where are you from?” He replied, “From the people of Iraq.” Ibn ʿUmar then said, “Look at this man! He asks about mosquito blood, while they killed the son of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him! I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say,” and he then mentioned it.

The additional wording is from Aḥmad, while the wording is that of al-Tirmidhī, who said: “This is a good, authentic hadith.”