“An authentic chain of transmission.” Al-Dhahabī concurred with him. That is what the two of them said.

A fifth connected route as well was reported by al-Dāraquṭnī through Muḥammad ibn ʿUbayd ibn ʿAbd, who said: Aḥmad ibn Masīḥ al-Jammāl narrated to us; ʿIṣmah ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us; Isrāʾīl narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Wāʾil, from him—that is, Ibn Masʿūd. I have found no biographical notice for ʿIṣmah ibn ʿAbd Allāh or any of those after him in the chain.

In sum, the hadith is authentic when all these routes are considered together, due to the diversity of their sources. Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah categorically affirmed this in his book Qāʿidat al-ʿUqūd.

799 — “If there is an ill omen in anything, it is in a house, a woman, and a horse.”

Al-Bukhārī reported it (9/112) through Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ: ʿUmar ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAsqalānī narrated to us from his father, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: Ill omen was mentioned in the presence of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, and he said it. Shuʿbah also corroborated him from ʿUmar with the wording, “If there is,” though this wording is absent in (442).

This Muḥammad is Ibn Zayd ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar al-Madanī. He was trustworthy and authoritative, and he preserved the hadith accurately. Others narrated it from Ibn ʿUmar with the wording, “Ill omen is in,” as will come under no. 1897. In my view, Muḥammad’s version is more probable, because it has authentic supporting reports. He was also corroborated in it by Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, as reported by Muslim (7/34) and al-Ṭaḥāwī (2/381).

Among its supporting reports is one from Sahl ibn Saʿd with this wording. Mālik reported it (3/140), and from him al-Bukhārī reported it in his Ṣaḥīḥ and in al-Adab al-Mufrad (132); Muslim (7/34–35), Ibn Mājah (2/615), al-Ṭaḥāwī (2/381), and Aḥmad (5/335, 338) also reported it—all of them from Mālik, from Abū Ḥāzim ibn Dīnār, from Sahl ibn Saʿd, attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with this wording.