Al-Bayhaqi also transmitted it in al-Sunan (7/69–70). Its narrators are trustworthy, were it not for Abu Ishaq—al-Sabiʿi—reporting with an ambiguous “from” and for his later-life confusion. It has a supporting report attributed to the Prophet, transmitted by al-Khatib in al-Tarikh (9/328), through Hamzah al-Nusaybi, from Ibn Abi Mulaykah, from Aishah, attributed to the Prophet with the same wording. However, this Hamzah is an abandoned and suspect narrator, so he cannot be cited as corroboration. What has preceded is sufficient.
- “The Days of Tashriq are days of eating and remembrance.”
It was narrated by al-Tabarani in al-Tafsir (vol. 4, p. 211, no. 3911), Ibn Hibban (959), Ahmad (2/229 and 387), and al-Tahawi in Sharh al-Maʿani (1/428), through Umar ibn Abi Salamah, from his father, from Abu Hurayrah, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said this. In one of Ahmad’s two narrations, the wording is: “Eating and the remembrance of Allah”; on another occasion, he said: “Days of eating and drinking.”
I say: Its narrators are trustworthy, apart from Umar ibn Abi Salamah. Al-Hafiz said: “Truthful, though prone to error.”
I say: Yet he has been corroborated. Ibn Majah (1719) narrated it through Muhammad ibn Amr, from Abu Salamah, with the wording: “The days of Mina are days of eating and drinking.” It was likewise reported by Salih ibn Abi al-Akhdar, from Ibn Shihab, from Ibn al-Musayyib, from Abu Hurayrah, with the same wording. Al-Tahawi narrated it.
Al-Tahawi also transmitted it on the authority of Ali ibn Abi Talib and Saʿd ibn Abi Waqqas. Both he and Ibn Saʿd (2/187) transmitted it from Abdullah ibn Hudhafah. Al-Tahawi also narrated it from Nubayshah al-Hudhali, a man among the Companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, Bishr ibn Suhaym, Umm Amr bint Khaldah al-Zuraqiyyah, al-Hakam al-Zuraqi, and Umm Masʿud; while Ahmad (2/39) narrated it from Ibn Umar. Its wording is like that of the heading.
I say: The hadith is mass-transmitted.