the people of Medina. This is what Ibn Hibban explicitly stated, as cited above from al-Lisan.

In sum, al-Haythami’s criticism of the hadith and his declaring it weak rests solely on his equating the two men named Maymun. This is an error, for the reasons we have mentioned, even though Shaykh al-Azami endorsed it in his annotations to al-Kashf, as did our colleague al-Salafi in his annotations to al-Tabarani’s al-Kabir. There is another error in al-Haythami’s statement, likewise endorsed by those just mentioned: namely, his equating the chains of transmission in al-Kabir and al-Awsat. This is not so, for its chain in the latter is as follows: Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Shuayb narrated to us; Muhammad ibn Abi Bilal al-Taymi narrated to us; Khalaf ibn Khalifah narrated to us, from Muharib ibn Dithar, from Ibn Umar, as a Prophetic report, with the wording al-Haythami mentioned.

I say: This chain is acceptable for corroboration and supporting evidence. Khalaf and those above him are among Muslim’s narrators. Muhammad ibn Abi Hilal is the one who narrated from Malik ibn Anas, concerning whom Ibn Muin said, “There is no objection to him,” as stated in Tarikh Baghdad (2/98). As for Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Shuayb, Abu Bakr al-Samsar, al-Khatib likewise gave his biographical notice (3/66), mentioning that he narrated from a number of shaykhs and that Ismail al-Khattabi narrated from him. He died in 290 AH, and al-Khatib mentioned neither criticism nor accreditation concerning him. The hadith has many chains and supporting reports conveying the same meaning; I have cited a good many of its sound ones in Irwa al-Ghalil (830) and al-Rawd al-Nadir (195, 603).

1549 — “Have you not heard that I have cursed whoever brands an animal on its face, or strikes it on its face?!” He then forbade that.

Abu Dawud related it (1/401–402): Muhammad ibn Kathir narrated to us: Sufyan informed us, from Abu al-Zubayr, from Jabir, that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, passed by a donkey that had been branded on its face and said the above.