The second is that the one whose report differs here—if we regard it as a discrepancy at all—is Saʿid ibn Abi Burdah. He is a trustworthy, firmly reliable narrator, relied upon by all six canonical compilers; thus, attributing the discrepancy to al-Mughirah ibn Abi al-Hurr is entirely unwarranted. I am of the view that what Saʿid ibn Abi Burdah narrated from his father is a different hadith from that which Thabit and those with him narrated from him. This is indicated, on the one hand, by the difference in the hadith’s wording and, on the other, by the presence in his narration from him of something absent from their narration from him: “The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, came to us while we were sitting.” In my judgment, the hadith is therefore authentic, for all its other narrators are trustworthy and precise hadith authorities.

As for what appears in al-Dhahabi’s Mizan, Khanji edition (3/190), in the biography of this al-Mughirah, after the hadith: “I say: The chain to him is questionable,” it is a typographical or scribal error. The correct placement of this statement by al-Dhahabi is with another chain that he cited in the biography of Mughira ibn al-Hasan al-Hashimi, immediately following this biography. It appears correctly in the Halabi edition of al-Mizan (4/159).

1601 — “A man from among the inhabitants of Hell will be made so immense in Hell that one of his molars will be like Mount Uhud.”

Ahmad narrated it (4/366) through Abu Hayyan al-Taymi, who said: Yazid ibn Hayyan al-Taymi narrated to me ... and Zayd ibn Arqam narrated to us. He said: He then mentioned it. It is attributed to the Prophet, though he did not explicitly state its attribution.

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission according to the criteria of Muslim. It also has a corroborating report from the hadith of Abu Saʿid al-Khudri, attributed to the Prophet, with similar wording. Ibn Majah narrated it (2/587) through Muhammad ibn Abi Layla, from ʿAtiyyah al-ʿAwfi, from him.