but Ibn Lahīʿah is weak.
In sum, the hadith is authentic through these corroborating reports.
719 — “The Prophet prohibited a man from putting on sandals while standing.”
It was reported from a number of Companions, including Abū Hurayrah, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, Anas, and Jābir.
- As for the hadith of Abū Hurayrah, it has four routes:
The first: Ibn Mājah (2/380) narrated it: ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Abū Muʿāwiyah narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Ṣāliḥ, from Abū Hurayrah, attributing it to the Prophet.
This is a chain whose narrators are trustworthy and are all among those relied upon by al-Bukhārī and Muslim, apart from ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad—who is Ibn Isḥāq al-Ṭanāfisī and is trustworthy. Thus, it is an authentic chain, provided that al-Aʿmash heard it from Abū Ṣāliḥ, for he was known to practise concealment in transmission. Nevertheless, al-Bukhārī and Muslim included many hadiths through this chain in their two authentic collections, narrated using the ambiguous “from” formula.
The second: al-Tirmidhī (1/328) and al-ʿUqaylī, in his work on weak narrators (78), reported it from al-Ḥārith ibn Nabhān, from Maʿmar, from ʿAmmār ibn Abī ʿAmmār, from him, with the same wording. Al-Tirmidhī said: