Ibn ʿAbbās also narrated it from Ubayy. Al-Nasāʾī recorded it.

I say: Its chain of transmission is good. It has a supporting report with similar wording from the hadith of Abū Bakrah al-Thaqafī. Aḥmad recorded it (5/41, 51), as did Ibn Abī Shaybah (12/68/1). Its chain includes ʿAlī ibn Zayd ibn Judʿān, who is weak.

The final sentence also has a supporting report from the hadith of Ibn Masʿūd, worded: “I was commanded to recite the Quran in seven modes. Each is sufficient and healing.” Al-Ṭabarī narrated it (vol. 1, no. 43, p. 45). He said: Yūnus related to me; he said: Ibn Wahb informed us; Sulaymān ibn Bilāl informed me, from Abū ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, from his father, from his grandfather, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said—and then he cited it.

I say: The narrators in this chain are reliable, apart from Abū ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, whom I have not been able to identify. It is indeed a problematic chain, as the editor Aḥmad Shākir said in his notes on al-Ṭabarī. For the phrase “from his grandfather” means that the narrator of the hadith is Masʿūd, the father of ʿAbd Allāh, rather than ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd. Nothing of this kind is found in the books of the Sunnah. It therefore appears that Abū ʿĪsā was ascribed there to his grandfather, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd. It is well known for a narrator to be ascribed to his grandfather; but who, then, is the father of this Abū ʿĪsā? Indeed, who is Abū ʿĪsā himself? This is something that has not become clear to us.

It is possible that he was al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd, or his brother Maʿn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, for each of them narrated from his father, from his grandfather. Yet this possibility seems unlikely, since the former’s kunya was Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, while the latter’s was Abū al-Qāsim. And Allah knows best.