As for his words, “We also have, regarding it, …” etc., he means the hadith that follows. What you will see in its documentation will make clear to you that his statement, “al-Yashkurī alone narrated it,” was only according to the extent of his knowledge; otherwise, a number of others corroborated it, as will follow.
- As for the hadith of Ibn ʿUmar, al-ʿUqaylī recorded it in al-Ḍuʿafāʾ (257), and al-Dāraquṭnī in Gharāʾib Mālik, through ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Nāfiʿ al-ʿĀmirī, who said: Mālik narrated to us from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, as a Prophetic report with the same wording. Al-ʿUqaylī said: “ʿAbd al-Wahhāb is rejected in hadith and cannot transmit it reliably.” Al-Dāraquṭnī said: “ʿAbd al-Wahhāb is extremely weak.”
Al-ʿUqaylī then said: “It has no basis among Mālik’s hadiths, nor has any trustworthy narrator transmitted it from him. It has, however, been narrated through another route, which also contains some weakness.”
In al-Lisān, al-Ḥāfiẓ said after citing the hadith: “Then he—al-Dāraquṭnī—recorded it through five routes from Mālik and said: ‘Everyone who narrated it from Mālik is weak.’”
I say: Perhaps one of these routes is the narration of al-Yashkurī to which al-Ḥākim alluded in his earlier remarks. Al-Khaṭīb recorded it in al-Fawāʾid al-Ṣiḥāḥ al-Gharāʾib (vol. 1, no. 17 in my copy), through Muḥammad ibn Ghālib ibn Ḥarb, who said: Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd al-Yashkurī narrated to us; Mālik ibn Anas narrated to us the same report. He said: “This is a singular hadith among the reports of Mālik ibn Anas from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar. Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd al-Yashkurī alone narrated it; ʿAlī ibn Qutaybah al-Rifāʿī corroborated him from Mālik, but it is not established as a narration from him.”