That is, he narrated it from Jubayr ibn Nufayr without mentioning Abu Dharr in its chain of transmission. Abu Dawud narrated it in his Marāsīl, as cited in al-Targhīb (2/220), and so did al-Ḥākim. In my view, this is the correct version, because although al-Bukhārī narrated from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ, he was weak with regard to his retention and heedlessness. Ibn Wahb, who was a trustworthy and precise narrator, differed from him, and Maʿn ibn ʿĪsā corroborated Ibn Wahb’s version in al-Dārimī, as I have explained in Takhrīj al-Mishkāh (2173).

The hadith also has a corroborating report from ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir, attributed to the Prophet, with similar wording. It was narrated by Aḥmad (4/158), Ibn Naṣr (65), and Abū Jaʿfar ibn Abī Shaybah in al-ʿArsh (114/2), through two chains from Yazīd ibn Abī Ḥabīb, from Marthad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Yazanī, from him. (See al-Istidrāk, no. 472/8.)

I say: Its chain of transmission is good. Al-Dhahabī said in al-ʿUluww (no. 87, in its abridgment): “Its chain of transmission is sound.”

1483 — “I was given the openings and endings of speech. We said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, teach us some of what Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, has taught you.’ So he taught us the tashahhud.”

Abū Yaʿlā narrated it in his Musnad (4/1737), from Hushaym, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Isḥāq, from Abū Burdah ibn Abī Mūsā al-Ashʿarī, from his father, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said this.

I say: This is a weak chain of transmission. Its narrators are trustworthy, apart from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Isḥāq, namely Abū Shaybah al-Wāsiṭī, who is unanimously deemed weak. However, the hadith has a corroborating report from Ibn Masʿūd, who said: “The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, was taught the openings of goodness and its comprehensive expressions—or the comprehensive expressions of goodness and its openings. We did not know what to say in our prayer until he taught us, saying: ‘All greetings are due to Allah …’”—that is, the remainder of the tashahhud.

It was narrated by Ibn Mājah (1892) and Aḥmad (1/408), through two chains from Abū Isḥāq, from Abū al-Aḥwaṣ, from him.