I say: All its narrators are trustworthy and are among al-Bukhārī’s narrators, except al-Walīd ibn ʿUtbah. Al-Bukhārī said in his Tārīkh: “His hadith is known.” As for Abū Ḥātim, he said: “He is unknown.”

I say: Al-Bukhārī knew him, and one who knows is proof against one who does not. This is especially so when the one who knows is someone like al-Bukhārī, the foremost authority in hadith. Thus, if the hadith is not intrinsically good through this route, it is at least good on account of corroboration through the preceding route. Especially since it has another route from Ibn ʿUmar: ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, the steward and client of the family of al-Zubayr, narrated it from Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, from Ibn ʿUmar, from ʿUmar, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said it—and he mentioned something similar, adding at its end: “Whatever it may be, for as long as he lives.”

Al-Tirmidhī and Abū Nuʿaym recorded it in al-Ḥilyah (6/265). Al-Tirmidhī said: “A singular hadith. ʿAmr ibn Dīnār, the steward of the family of al-Zubayr, was a Basran shaykh and was not strong in hadith. He alone narrated hadiths from Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allāh.”

I say: One indication of his weakness is his inconsistency in the chain of transmission of this hadith. At one time he narrated it in this manner, and at another he said: from Sālim, from Ibn ʿUmar, attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. He did not mention ʿUmar in its chain.

Ibn Mājah (3892), ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd in al-Muntakhab min al-Musnad (6/2), Ibn al-Aʿrābī in al-Muʿjam (fol. 238/2), al-Kharāʾiṭī in Faḍīlat al-Shukr (1/2), Tammām al-Rāzī in al-Fawāʾid (fol. 117/1), al-Ḥanāʾī in al-Fawāʾid (3/258/2), and al-Baghawī in Sharḥ al-Sunnah (1/149/2) recorded it through various routes from him, with this chain. Al-Ḥanāʾī said: