This is a chain of transmission that is satisfactory for corroborating reports. Its narrators are trustworthy, apart from Sharīk—ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Qāḍī—whose memory was poor. However, he was himself trustworthy and was not suspected of dishonesty; thus, his hadith is authentic when corroborated by another route. And Allah knows best.

650 — “There are three whose prayer is not accepted, does not ascend to heaven, and rises no higher than their heads: a man who leads people in prayer while they dislike him; a man who performs the funeral prayer without having been appointed to do so; and a woman whose husband calls her to his bed at night and she refuses him.”

Ibn Khuzaymah recorded it in his Ṣaḥīḥ (161/1) through the route of ʿAṭāʾ ibn Dīnār al-Hudhalī, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said … and he cited it. He also recorded it through the route of ʿAmr ibn al-Walīd, from Anas ibn Mālik, who traced it back to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him—that is, with wording similar to this. He said: “I included the first report, although it is mursal, because the hadith of Anas that follows it is similar to it. Had it not been for this, I would not have included the mursal report in this book.”

I say: The narrators of the first report are trustworthy, but it has a double break, since ʿAṭāʾ ibn Dīnār al-Hudhalī did not meet any of the Companions; rather, he narrates only from the Successors. The narrators of the other report are likewise trustworthy, and its chain is connected, except that regarding ʿAmr ibn al-Walīd, al-Dhahabī said: “No one narrated from him other than Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb.” Yet his biographical notice suggests that he was a virtuous and well-known man. Ibn Yūnus said: