Abdullah ibn Sa'id ibn Abi Hind, from Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Amr ibn Uthman, from his mother Fatimah bint al-Husayn, from Ibn Abbas, attributed directly to the Prophet, with the same wording. (See Addendum no. 51/22.) This is a good chain of transmission, Allah willing. Its narrators are trustworthy, apart from this Muhammad ibn Abdullah: al-Nasa'i declared him trustworthy, though on one occasion he said, “He is not strong.” Al-Bukhari said, “His reports are scarcely corroborated.” Al-Hafiz said in al-Taqrib that he was “truthful,” which is inconsistent with his statement in al-Fath (10/130): “Ibn Majah narrated it, and its chain of transmission is weak.”

Ibn Abi al-Zinad also corroborated him, narrating it from Muhammad ibn Abdullah with the same wording. It was narrated by Ibn Majah, al-Tayalisi (no. 1601), Luwayn in his Hadiths (26/1), Ibn Wahb in al-Jami' (p. 106), Abu al-Qasim al-Hamdani in al-Fawa'id (1/199/1), and al-Diya' in al-Mukhtarah (67/103/2).

Al-Haythami cited it in al-Majma' (5/101) and said: “Al-Tabarani narrated it, and it contains Ibn Lahi'ah, whose hadith is good; the rest of its narrators are trustworthy.” It seems that he overlooked its presence in the Sunan of Ibn Majah. Perhaps al-Tabarani narrated it through another route, which is why he included it. Allah knows best. I subsequently verified this, as will follow.

It also has a supporting narration, reported by Abdullah, the son of Imam Ahmad, in the Additions to al-Musnad (1/78), Abu Ya'la in his Musnad (317/2), and Ibn Asakir in the History of Damascus (19/247/1), from al-Faraj ibn Fadalah, from Abdullah ibn Amir, from Abdullah ibn Amr ibn Uthman, from his mother Fatimah bint Husayn, from Husayn, from his father Ali ibn Abi Talib, with the same wording. (1)

This is a weak chain of transmission. Al-Faraj ibn Fadalah and his teacher Abdullah—who was al-Aslami—are both weak, as stated in al-Taqrib. Al-Majma' states: “Abdullah ibn Ahmad narrated it, and it contains al-Faraj ibn Fadalah, whom Ahmad and others declared trustworthy, while al-Nasa'i and others declared him weak. The rest of its narrators are trustworthy, unless someone has been omitted from the chain of transmission.”