“I heard an elderly man from Banu Hashim mention sheep, and he said: ‘The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said …’” He then cited it. Ibn Abi Shaybah narrated it in his Musnad (2/76/1).

I say: Its narrators are reliable, apart from the Hashimite shaykh. If he was a Companion, then its chain of transmission is authentic, for the anonymity of a Companion is not detrimental. This is apparently indicated by Ibn Abi Shaybah’s inclusion of it in the Musnad. If he was a Successor, however, it is mursal. This is the more apparent possibility, because Abu Hayyan—whose name was Yahya ibn Saʿid ibn Hayyan—is not mentioned as having narrated from any of the Companions, but only from the Successors. For this reason, al-Hafiz placed him in the sixth tier. In any case, this chain is acceptable as corroborative evidence.

1129 — “The first to be clothed will be Abraham, Allah’s close friend, peace and blessings be upon him.”

Al-Bazzar narrated it in his Musnad (254—its supplementary section), and Ibn ʿAsakir (2/178/1), through Layth, from Mujahid, from ʿAʾishah, attributed to the Prophet. Al-Bazzar said: “Its chain is good!”

I say: Layth is weak on account of his retention, but the hadith is authentic. Al-Bukhari (2/339/370), Muslim (8/157), and Ibn ʿAsakir as well (2/2177) narrated it on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbas; Ibn ʿAsakir also narrated it on the authority of Ibn Masʿud.

1130 — “Place the loads to the rear on camels, for the hand is suspended and the foot is bound.”

Abu al-Qasim ibn al-Jarrah, the vizier, narrated it in the seventh session of al-Amali (2/1); Ibn Saʿid, in a section of his hadiths (2/9); and al-Mukhallis, in the second part of the sixth volume of al-Fawaʾid al-Muntaqah (188/1), through Sufyan ibn ʿUyaynah, from Waʾil ibn Dawud, from his son—that is, Bakr ibn Waʾil—from al-Zuhri, from Saʿid ibn al-Musayyib, from Abu Hurayrah, attributed to the Prophet.