mid-Shaʿbān, is not something upon which one should rely. If any of them did make such a statement, it was only because of haste and a failure to exert sufficient effort to trace the routes in the manner set before you here. Allah, Most High, is the One who grants success.

1145 — “The rider should greet the pedestrian, the pedestrian the one seated, and the smaller group the larger group.”

It was recorded by al-Bukhārī (7/127), Muslim (7/2), al-Bukhārī also in al-Adab al-Mufrad (144 and 145), Abū Dāwūd (2/343), and Aḥmad (2/325 and 510), all through Ibn Jurayj, who said: Ziyād informed me that Thābit, the freedman of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Zayd, informed him that he heard Abū Hurayrah say—then he cited it as attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. There are other routes from him which will be mentioned shortly.

It has a corroborating report from the hadith of Faḍālah ibn ʿUbayd. It was recorded by al-Bukhārī in al-Adab al-Mufrad (145), Ibn Ḥibbān (1936), and Aḥmad in al-Musnad (6/20), from Abū Hānī, who said that Abū ʿAlī al-Janabī related to him from Faḍālah, as attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, with this wording. Al-Dārimī (2/276) narrated something similar. This is an authentic chain.

It has also been reported with another wording, which will be mentioned shortly; and it has another route with the wording: “The rider should greet the pedestrian, the pedestrian the one seated, the smaller group the larger group, and the younger the elder.” It was recorded by al-Tirmidhī (2/118) and Aḥmad (2/510), from Rūḥ ibn ʿUbādah, from Ḥabīb ibn al-Shahīd, from al-Ḥasan, from Abū Hurayrah, as attributed to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. Its narrators are trustworthy and were used by both al-Bukhārī and Muslim, except that its chain is interrupted. Al-Tirmidhī said: “Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī, Yūnus ibn ʿUbayd, and ʿAlī ibn Zayd said that al-Ḥasan did not hear from Abū Hurayrah.” However, it has another route from Abū Hurayrah, which will be mentioned shortly.

1146 — “The rider should greet the pedestrian, the pedestrian the one seated; and when two pedestrians meet, whichever of them begins with the greeting is better.”

It was recorded by al-Bukhārī in al-Adab al-Mufrad (143, 144, and 145) and by Ibn Ḥibbān