“Keep back, for you are not to walk in the middle of the road; keep to the sides of the road.” Thereafter, a woman would cling so closely to the wall that her garment would catch on it because of how close she kept to it. It was narrated by Abū Dāwūd (5272), al-Haytham ibn Kulayb in his Musnad (f. 190/1), and al-Bayhaqī in Shuʿab al-Īmān. However, this Shaddād is unknown, as al-Ḥāfiẓ stated in al-Taqrīb.

In sum, the hadith is good when its two chains are considered together. And Allah knows best.

857 — “Fear, O Abū al-Walīd, lest you come on the Day of Resurrection carrying upon your neck a grunting camel, a bellowing cow, or a bleating sheep.”

Al-Ḥumaydī narrated it in his Musnad (895), saying: Sufyān narrated to us; Ibn Ṭāwūs narrated to us from his father, who said: “The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, appointed ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit to oversee the collection of alms, then said to him”—and he cited the hadith.

I say: This chain is authentic, were it not mursal. However, al-Bayhaqī supplied its missing link in al-Sunan (4/158), through Ibn Abī ʿUmar, who said: Sufyān narrated to us with this same chain, except that he said: from his father, from ʿUbādah, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, sent him to collect the alms … the hadith. This is therefore an authentic chain according to Muslim’s criteria. Ibn Abī ʿUmar was Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā; he was trustworthy, one of Muslim’s shaykhs, and a close companion of Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah. Al-Ṭabarānī likewise narrated it with a continuous chain in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr, as cited in al-Majmaʿ (3/86), and said: “Its narrators are those of the authentic collections.”