Al-Ḥāfiẓ also mentioned that Ibn Khuzaymah transmitted it in his Ṣaḥīḥ through Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq, from Wahb ibn Kaysān, with the wording: “When you arrive, act wisely.”

1191 — “Sari means a river.”

Muḥammad ibn al-ʿAbbās al-Bazzār transmitted it in his Ḥadīth (116/1): ʿUbayd ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid narrated to us; Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān narrated to us, from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Isḥāq, from al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib, attributing it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.

I say: This is a sound chain of transmission. All its narrators are trustworthy and appear among the narrators of al-Bukhārī’s Ṣaḥīḥ, apart from ʿUbayd ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid—namely, Ibn Sharīk al-Bazzār—who was trustworthy and truthful, as stated in Lisān al-Mīzān. However, Ibn Jarīr transmitted it in al-Tafsīr (16/53) through Shuʿbah, and al-Ḥākim (2/373) through Sufyān, both from Abū Isḥāq, who said: “I heard al-Barāʾ say …,” then cited it as a statement attributed to the Companion.

I say: This is more authentic. Yet a Companion’s exegesis of the Quran carries the ruling of a report attributed to the Prophet, as al-Ḥākim established in his Mustadrak—especially since it has also been narrated as a statement of Ibn ʿAbbās, the Interpreter of the Quran. Ibn Jarīr and others transmitted it.

Al-Ṭabarānī also transmitted the hadith in al-Ṣaghīr (p. 142, Indian edition), through Baqiyyah ibn al-Walīd, from Muʿāwiyah ibn Yaḥyā al-Ṣadafī, from Abū Sinān, from Abū Isḥāq, attributing it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. He said: “No one has attributed this hadith to the Prophet from Abū Isḥāq except Abū Sinān Saʿīd ibn Sinān.”

I say: He was truthful, though he made errors, and Muslim relied upon his narrations. But al-Ṣadafī is weak, and Baqiyyah practised tadlīs. As for his statement, “No one has attributed it to the Prophet except Abū Sinān,” this was only according to what had reached him; otherwise, the hadith under this heading disproves it.