Ibn ʿAdi said: “His hadiths from his father are more objectionable than those he narrated from ʿIkrimah.”
Al-Hafiz said in al-Taqrib: “Truthful, prone to error, and virtuous.”
The remaining narrators are biographied in al-Tahdhib, apart from ʿUmar ibn Yunus al-Yamami. Ibn Abi Hatim included his biography (3/1/142–143) and related from Ahmad and Ibn Maʿin that they both said: “Trustworthy.”
Ibn ʿAsakir also recorded it (9/307/1) through Ibn Ahmad and others, from Wahb, through the same chain. Ibrahim ibn Marzuq corroborated him in Ibn ʿAsakir’s work, saying: “ʿUmar ibn Yunus narrated to us,” through the same chain.
The fourth route is from al-Walid ibn Muhammad al-Muwaqqiri, from al-Zuhri, from ʿAli ibn al-Husayn …—thus in the original, indicating that the material represented by the ellipsis has been omitted—from ʿAli ibn Abi Talib, through the same report.
Al-Tirmidhi recorded it (4/310) and said: “A singular hadith through this route.”
I say: This al-Walid is abandoned and accused of lying. Ibn ʿAsakir also recorded it (13/1) from him, and through the route of ʿIsmah ibn Muhammad al-Ansari: Yahya ibn Saʿid al-Ansari narrated to us from Saʿid ibn al-Musayyib, from ʿAli ibn al-Husayn ibn ʿAli ibn Abi Talib, from his father, from his grandfather ʿAli ibn Abi Talib, through the same report.
I say: This is a chain with a continuous chain of transmission, but ʿIsmah ibn Muhammad is a liar who fabricates hadiths, as Ibn Maʿin said.
- As for the hadith of Anas, it has two routes from him: