the hidden defect, namely the unknown status of Sa‘id ibn ‘Amr al-Makhzumi and Ibn Zurarah. His shaykh, al-Haythami, had alluded to this when he said in al-Majma‘ (7/117), after attributing it to al-Tabarani: “It contains someone whom I do not know.” However, the hadith has supporting reports through which it is strengthened:
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Al-Bazzar and Ibn al-Mundhir narrated, through a sound chain, from ‘Amr ibn Shu‘ayb, from his father, from his grandfather, who said: “This verse was revealed only concerning the deniers of divine decree: ‘Indeed, the wicked are in error and madness. The Day they are dragged into the Fire upon their faces: “Taste the touch of Saqar. Indeed, We have created all things by divine decree.”’”
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Sa‘id ibn Mansur, Ibn Sa‘d, and Ibn al-Mundhir narrated from Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Ali ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn Ja‘far, may Allah be pleased with him, whose mother was Lubabah bint ‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Abbas, may Allah be pleased with them both. She said: “Every Friday, before my grandfather Ibn ‘Abbas, may Allah be pleased with him, lost his sight, I would visit him. I heard him reciting from the mushaf, and when he came to this verse—‘Indeed, the wicked...’—he said: ‘I do not know who the people intended by this verse are; they have not yet appeared, but they certainly will.’”
Through ‘Ata’ ibn Abi Rabah, it is also narrated from him that he was told: “People have begun speaking about divine decree.” He replied: “Have they actually done so?! By Allah, this verse was revealed only concerning them: ‘Taste the touch of Saqar. Indeed, We have created all things by divine decree.’ They are the worst of this Ummah. Do not visit their sick, nor perform the funeral prayer over their dead. If I were to see one of them, I would gouge out his eyes with these two fingers of mine.” Ibn al-Mundhir, Ibn Abi Hatim, and Ibn Mardawayh narrated it. This is how it appears in al-Durr al-Manthur (6/137).
This does not conflict with what has preceded: Muslim (8/52) and others narrated from Abu Hurayrah, who said: