Al-Daylamī also reported it in Musnad al-Firdaws (1/1/87), through al-Bazzār, from Ḥafṣ.

Among its supporting narrations is what al-ʿAskarī reported in al-Amthāl, and al-Khulʿī in his Fawāʾid, on the authority of Samurah ibn Jundub. Al-Manāwī said: “Al-Suyūṭī designated the hadith as good, perhaps because it is strengthened by corroborating evidence.”

I say: It seems that neither of them came across the authentic route recorded by Abū al-Shaykh from Abū Hurayrah. So praise be to Allah for His enabling grace.

727 — “Do not force your sick to eat or drink, for Allah feeds them and gives them drink.”

It has been narrated on the authority of ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir al-Juhanī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, and Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh.

1. As for the hadith of ʿUqbah, Bakr ibn Yūnus ibn Bukayr narrated it from Mūsā ibn ʿAlī, from his father, from him, with this wording. It was reported by al-Tirmidhī (2/3), Ibn Mājah (3444), al-Rūyānī in his Musnad (9/49/1), Ibn Abī Ḥātim (2/242), and Ibn ʿAdī in al-Kāmil (2/36). He said: “No one narrates it from Mūsā ibn ʿAlī except Bakr ibn Yūnus, and most of what he narrates is not corroborated. Al-Bukhārī said: ‘His hadith is rejected.’” Ibn Abī Ḥātim related from his father: “This is a false hadith, and this Bakr is rejected in hadith.”