al-Ḥasan …” It was recorded by al-Ṭabarānī (1/123/1).
This is a good chain of transmission: all its narrators are trustworthy except this al-Dhuhlī. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Taqrīb: “Acceptable.” The name “Muḥammad ibn” was omitted from al-Haythamī’s copy of al-Muʿjam, so he did not identify him and said (9/183): “It was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī, and it includes Marwān al-Dhuhlī, whom I do not know; the rest of its narrators are narrators of the Sahih collections.”
Al-Ṭabarānī then recorded it through the route of Sayf ibn Muḥammad, who said: Sufyān informed us, from Abū al-Jaḥḥāf and Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, from Abū Ḥāzim, with the same report but without the addition. However, this Sayf was declared a liar, so he cannot be cited as corroborative evidence.
- As for the hadith of Jābir, Jābir—that is, al-Juʿfī—narrated it from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sābiṭ, from him. He said: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said—and he mentioned it. It was recorded by al-Ṭabarānī and Ibn ʿAsākir (4/256/1). Al-Haythamī said: “Jābir al-Juʿfī is weak.”
I say: Yet he was not alone in narrating it, for al-Rabīʿ ibn Saʿd corroborated him, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Sābiṭ, from him. However, its wording is: “Whoever wishes to look at the master of the youths of Paradise, let him look at this one”—meaning al-Ḥasan. In one narration: “al-Ḥusayn.” It was recorded by Ibn Ḥibbān (2236) and Ibn ʿAsākir, and he said: