Hammad, from Ibrahim, from Alqamah ibn Qays, who said: “I was a man to whom Allah had given a beautiful voice in reciting the Quran. Abdullah would ask me to recite and say, ‘Recite—may my father and mother be ransomed for you—for I heard the Prophet ﷺ say…’” Then he cited it.

I say: The narrators in this chain of transmission are trustworthy, apart from Said ibn Zurbi, whose hadith is rejected, as al-Hafiz stated in al-Taqrib.

772 — “Leave the Abyssinians alone so long as they leave you alone, for none will extract the treasure of the Ka‘bah except the Abyssinian man with small legs.”

It was narrated by Abu Dawud (2/212), and from him by al-Khatib in al-Tarikh (12/403), as well as by al-Hakim (4/453) and Ahmad (5/371), through the route of Zuhayr ibn Muhammad, from Musa ibn Jubayr, from Abu Umamah ibn Sahl ibn Hunayf, from Abdullah ibn Amr, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said it. Al-Hakim said: “Its chain of transmission is authentic,” and al-Dhahabi agreed with him.

I say: They were mistaken, for this Zuhayr has some weakness, as will be explained below.

Abd al-Haqq attributed it in al-Ahkam al-Kubra (110/1) to Ibn Abi Shaybah, then said: “Zuhayr ibn Muhammad had poor retention and is not accepted as evidence.”

I say: Musa ibn Jubayr is of unknown status. Ibn al-Qattan said: “His condition is not known.” Ibn Hibban said in al-Thiqat: “He used to err and contradict [reliable narrators]!” Al-Hafiz said: “His reliability is unestablished.”