He then mentioned it.

I say: This is a good chain of transmission. Al-Qasim ibn Muhammad was the son of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq—trustworthy, one of the jurists of Medina, and relied upon as an authority by the major hadith compilers.

Abu Wahb al-Kilāʿī’s name was ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿUbayd. Duhaym declared him trustworthy.

Ibn Maʿin said: “There is nothing wrong with him.”

Muhammad ibn Rashid was al-Makḥūlī al-Khuzāʿī al-Dimashqī. A number of leading imams, including Ahmad, Ibn Maʿin, and others, declared him trustworthy, while others considered him weak.

Abu Hatim adopted a moderate position regarding him, saying: “He was truthful, and his hadith was good.”

I say: This is the view that we consider correct. Al-Hafiz said in al-Taqrīb: “Truthful, but prone to error.”

As for Zayd ibn Yahya, he was either Zayd ibn Yahya ibn ʿUbayd al-Khuzāʿī, Abu ʿAbd Allah al-Dimashqī, or Zayd ibn Abi al-Zarqāʾ Yazid al-Mawṣilī, Abu Muhammad, who resided in al-Ramlah. I have not yet been able to determine which of the two is intended here. Both narrated from Muhammad ibn Rashid, and whichever of them it was, he was trustworthy.

I have found another chain for this hadith. Abu Yaʿla recorded it in his Musnad (225/1), as did Ibn ʿAdi (folio 264/2), through al-Furāt ibn Salman, from al-Qasim, with the following wording:

“The first thing to be overturned in Islam, just as a vessel is overturned, is a beverage called ṭilāʾ.”