Aḥmad also recorded it, as did al-Firyābī (p. 54), through another route from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Shurayḥ, with the same wording. I say: This is a chain whose narrators are trustworthy, apart from Muḥammad ibn Hadiyyah, for I have not found anyone who declared him trustworthy.
The second: Ibn Lahīʿah narrated to us: Darrāj narrated to us, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Jubayr, from him. It was recorded by Aḥmad and Ibn Baṭṭah.
Its chain is good as corroboration. Darrāj has some weakness, as does Ibn Lahīʿah; however, Ibn Baṭṭah’s narrator from him is ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb, whose reports from him are sound, since he heard from him early on. The same applies to ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak and ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd al-Muqriʾ.
- As for the hadith of ʿUqbah, Mishraḥ ibn Hāʿān narrated it from him, and there are two routes from Mishraḥ:
The first: from Ibn Lahīʿah, who said: Mishraḥ narrated to us from him, with it. It was recorded by Aḥmad (4/151, 154–155), al-Firyābī, Ibn Baṭṭah, Ibn Qutaybah in Gharīb al-Ḥadīth (1/105/1), Ibn ʿAdī in al-Kāmil (211/1), al-Khaṭīb in Tārīkh Baghdād (1/56/6), and Ibn ʿAsākir in Tārīkh Dimashq (10/19/1), through various routes from him.
This is a good chain. Mishraḥ is trustworthy, though there is slight criticism concerning his retention, which is not detrimental. Ibn Lahīʿah is trustworthy when one of the three transmitters named ʿAbd Allāh narrates from him, and this report was indeed narrated from him by all three: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yazīd in Aḥmad, Ibn al-Mubārak in al-Firyābī, and Ibn Wahb in Ibn Baṭṭah—particularly since it has been corroborated, as will follow.
The other route: Aḥmad said: Abū Salamah al-Khuzāʿī narrated to us; al-Walīd ibn al-Mughīrah narrated to us; Mishraḥ ibn Hāʿān narrated to us from him, with it.