“This is a singular hadith. ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr al-Raqqī also narrated this hadith from Maʿmar, from Qatādah, from Anas. Neither of the two hadiths is authentic according to the hadith scholars. Al-Ḥārith ibn Nabhān is not regarded by them as a proficient hadith memorizer, and we know of no basis for Qatādah’s hadith from Anas.”
After citing several hadiths of this al-Ḥārith, al-ʿUqaylī said: “None of these hadiths is corroborated. Their chains are objectionable, while their texts are known through chains other than these.”
I say: This al-Ḥārith is abandoned, and al-Raqqī contradicted him, as mentioned above in al-Tirmidhī’s statement. Al-Raqqī is trustworthy; thus, his narration from Maʿmar is the correct one. Discussion of it will follow.
The third: from Salamah ibn Ḥabīb, from ʿUrwah ibn ʿAlī al-Sahmī, from him.
It was narrated by Ibn Makhlad in al-Muntaqā min Aḥādīthihi (Selections from His Hadiths) (82/1), and by al-ʿUqaylī in al-Ḍuʿafāʾ (Weak Narrators) (331). He said: “ʿUrwah is unknown as a transmitter, and Salamah is similar.” Al-Dhahabī said the same.
The fourth: from Saʿīd ibn Bashīr, from ʿUmar ibn Dārim, from Sayf ibn Kurayb, from him, attributed to the Prophet.
It was narrated by Ibn al-Aʿrābī in al-Muʿjam (Lexicon) (18/1).
This is a weak chain. Saʿīd ibn Bashīr is weak, and I was unable to identify the two narrators above him.
- As for the hadith of Ibn ʿUmar, Ibn Mājah said: ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; Wakīʿ narrated to us, from Sufyān, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār, from him.
I say: This is an authentic chain. All its narrators are trustworthy and among those relied upon by the two Shaykhs, apart from ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad, who is Ibn Abī al-Khaṣīb. He is truthful, though he may at times have erred, as al-Ḥāfiẓ stated.
- As for the hadith of Anas, it is narrated by Sulaymān ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Raqqī: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿAmr narrated to us