It was transmitted by Malik (2/985/5), al-Tirmidhi (2/52), Ibn Majah (3969), Ibn Hibban (1576), al-Hakim (1/45–46), Ahmad (3/469), al-Humaydi (911), and Ibn Asakir in The History of Damascus (10/279 and 286, ed. the Scientific Academy), through various routes from Muhammad ibn Amr ibn Alqamah, from his father (from his grandfather), from Bilal ibn al-Harith al-Muzani, who reported that the Messenger of Allah said it. Al-Tirmidhi said: “A good, authentic hadith. More than one narrator related it from Muhammad ibn Amr in this manner, saying: from Muhammad ibn Amr, from his father, from his grandfather, from Bilal ibn al-Harith. Malik related this hadith from Muhammad ibn Amr, from his father, from Bilal ibn al-Harith, without mentioning his grandfather.”
I say: There are other variations in it as well, which Ibn Asakir documented. He then said: “All these chains contain flaws. The correct version is the narration of Muhammad ibn Amr ibn Alqamah, from his father, from his grandfather. This is how it was related by al-Thawri, Ibn Uyaynah, and …” He then cited all their narrations, which confirms that this is the preserved version. He then cited it through other routes from Alqamah ibn Waqqas al-Laythi, from Bilal, with the same wording. This Alqamah was trustworthy and precise; thus the hadith is authentic. Praise be to Allah.
This hadith also has a supporting report from Abu Hurayrah, attributed to the Prophet, with a shorter wording. It has previously appeared under no. 537.
- “Indeed, the evil eye can drive a man, by Allah’s permission, to climb a lofty place and then fall from it.”
Ahmad (5/146) transmitted it: Yunus ibn Muhammad narrated to us; Daylam narrated to us, from Wahb ibn Abi Dubayy—thus in the text; al-Khulāṣah has: Dunā, with a dāl bearing ḍammah followed by a nūn—from Abu Harb, from Mihjan, from Abu Dharr, who attributed it to the Prophet.