Ahmad (2/263) recorded it.

Wuhayb corroborated him, saying: “Suhayl narrated to us likewise,” except that he said: “the People of the Book.” Al-Bukhari recorded it in Al-Adab al-Mufrad (1103). It was also corroborated by ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Muhammad al-Darawardi, from Suhayl, with the wording: “Do not initiate the greeting of peace to the Jews or the Christians; and when you meet one of them on a road, force him to its narrowest part.” Muslim and al-Tirmidhi (3/388) recorded it, and the latter said: “A good, authentic hadith.”

I say: This variation in its wording appears to me—and Allah knows best—to have come from Suhayl himself, for his retention was somewhat weak. And Allah knows best.

1412 — “If some men pass by a group, and one of those passing greets those seated on behalf of the others, while one of the latter returns the greeting, that suffices for both groups.”

Abu Nu‘aym recorded it in Al-Hilyah (8/251), through Muhammad ibn al-Musayyab: ‘Abd Allah ibn Khubayq narrated to us; Yusuf ibn Asbat narrated to us, from ‘Abbad al-Basri, from Zayd ibn Aslam, from ‘Ata’ ibn Yasar, from Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said it. He then said: “It is singular among the narrations of Zayd and ‘Abbad; we have only recorded it through Yusuf’s narration.”

I say: Yusuf has some weakness. Al-Dhahabi included him in The Weak Narrators and said: “Yahya declared him trustworthy, but Abu Hatim said: ‘He is not to be cited as evidence.’” The name ‘Abbad al-Basri is shared by several narrators, and I have not been able to determine which one is intended. All the remaining narrators are trustworthy, apart from Muhammad ibn al-Musayyab. Al-Khatib gave his biography in The History (3/297), but mentioned neither criticism nor accreditation concerning him.

‘Abbad was contradicted in his chain of transmission. Ibn al-Sunni recorded it in The Deeds of the Day and Night (230) through Abu Malik, a companion of al-Basri, who said: Hafs ibn ‘Amr ibn Ruzayq