“And Ḥajjāj ibn Qumarī was a shaykh from Egypt, trustworthy and reliable.” Ibn Ḥibbān also included him among the trustworthy narrators.

The hadith also has a supporting report narrated by ʿĀmir ibn Saʿd from his father, attributed to the Prophet, with similar wording. It was recorded by Ibn ʿAsākir, Ibn al-Najjār, and al-Ḍiyāʾ, as cited in al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr (1/150/1). I consulted al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī’s al-Aḥādīth al-Mukhtārah, specifically his Musnad of Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ, but did not find the hadith in it. Allah knows best.

It has also been narrated from Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, attributed to the Prophet, with the wording: “Indeed, Allah loves lofty and noble matters, and He hates their trivial ones.” Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in al-Kabīr (1/140/1), as did Ibn ʿAdī (114/1), through Khālid ibn Ilyās al-ʿAdawī, who said: Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān informed me, from his mother Fāṭimah bint Ḥusayn, from her father Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī, with it. He said: “Khālid ibn Ilyās’s hadiths resemble anomalous and isolated reports from those from whom he narrates; despite his weakness, his hadith may be recorded.”

I say: From the statements of the other imams concerning him, it is understood that he is very weak. Accordingly, he is not suitable as a supporting report, and reliance rests upon what has preceded.

1379 — “When one of you completes his Hajj, let him hasten his journey back to his family, for that is greater for his reward.”

It was recorded by al-Dāraquṭnī (289) and al-Ḥākim (71/477), and from him by al-Bayhaqī (5/259), through Abū Marwān Muḥammad ibn ʿUthmān al-ʿUthmānī: Abū Ḍamrah al-Laythī narrated to us from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah, may Allah be pleased with her, in a report attributed to the Prophet. Al-Ḥākim said: “Authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs.” Al-Dhahabī agreed with him.

That is what they said, but this al-ʿUthmānī was not narrated from by either of the two Shaykhs, and there is some slight criticism concerning him. Indeed, al-Dhahabī himself listed him among the weak narrators and said: