“This is a rejected hadith.” Elsewhere (2/306), he cited it through the route of ʿAmr ibn ʿĀṣim al-Kilābī, from Ḥammād ibn Salamah, from ʿAlī ibn Zayd, with the same chain. He said: “My father said: Jundub has been added to the chain of transmission, but this is not preserved. Abū Salamah narrated to us from Ḥammād, and it does not contain Jundub.”

I say: All of them narrate it through ʿAmr ibn ʿĀṣim. It therefore seems that Abū Ḥātim is pointing to a defect in the hadith—namely, an interruption between al-Ḥasan and Ḥudhayfah. In any case, it is interrupted because of the aforementioned concealment in transmission.

I then found a corroborating report for the hadith in the narration of Ibn ʿUmar, attributed to the Prophet. Al-Ṭabarānī related it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (3/204/1): Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Khaythamah narrated to us; Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Madāʾinī informed us; Shabābah ibn Sawwār informed us; Warqāʾ ibn ʿUmar informed us, from Ibn Abī Najīḥ, from Mujāhid, from Ibn ʿUmar, with the same wording.

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission, if Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā is Abū Yaḥyā al-Luʾluʾī, the jurist and hadith master. Its remaining narrators are trustworthy narrators relied upon by both al-Bukhārī and Muslim, apart from Ibn Abī Khaythamah, who was a trustworthy hadith master and has an entry in Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ (2/278) and elsewhere.