“He was trustworthy.” Al-Dāraquṭnī said: “Truthful; he narrated in Baghdad.”

I say: ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḍarīr is ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Shaqīq al-ʿAbdī, their client, from Marw. For they listed Abū Ḥamzah al-Sukkarī—his teacher in this hadith—among his teachers. Yet I have not seen anyone describe him as al-Ḍarīr. Allah knows best.

The hadith also has a corroborating report from Ibn ʿAbbās: “The Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him, forbade the food of two people competing in ostentation to be eaten.” It was recorded by Abū Dāwūd (3754) and others, through a chain whose narrators are trustworthy. However, they judged that it is mursal, as I explained in my commentary on al-Mishkāt. It is a mursal report with an authentic chain of transmission, and thus a strong corroboration—especially since al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī included it in al-Mukhtārah (64/41/1) and noted the disagreement over whether it is connected or mursal.

627 — “If one of you visits his Muslim brother and he offers him food, let him eat from his food and not ask about it. If he gives him something to drink, let him drink from it and not ask about it.”

It was recorded by al-Ḥākim (4/126), Aḥmad (2/399), and al-Khaṭīb (3/87