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He then mentioned the hadith of Abū Umāmah and declared it weak. Al-Bayhaqī recorded it through Ibn Zaḥr, from ʿAlī ibn Yazīd, from al-Qāsim, from him. Al-Sulamī likewise narrated it in al-Arbaʿīn al-Ṣūfiyyah (9/1). Ibn Ḥibbān considered this chain extremely weak, saying of reports like it that they were fabricated by one of these three transmitters below Abū Umāmah. However, Abū Nuʿaym transmitted it in al-Ṭibb (fol. 11/1—the copy of Shaykh al-Safarjalānī) through ʿUthmān ibn Abī al-ʿĀtikah, from ʿAlī ibn Yazīd, with similar wording. Concerning this ʿUthmān, al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Taqrīb: “They regarded him as weak in his narrations from ʿAlī ibn Yazīd al-Alhānī.”
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As for the hadith of ʿAlī, I have not presently found its chain of transmission.
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As for the hadith of Ibn ʿAbbās, al-Ḥāfiẓ declared it weak, as mentioned above. Al-Haythamī explained its defect, saying (10/270): “Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it, and it contains a group of transmitters whom I do not know.”
I say: Its chain is worse than that, and its text contains a rejected addition. For this reason, I included it in al-Ḍaʿīfah (5396).
- As for the hadith of Anas, al-Haythamī attributed it only to al-Ṭabarānī’s al-Awsaṭ, in a highly abbreviated form, with the wording: “... Whoever humiliates a devoted servant of Mine has openly challenged Me to war.” He said: “It contains ʿUmar ibn Saʿīd Abū Ḥafṣ al-Dimashqī, who is weak.” I have found it through another, fuller route: al-Ḥasan ibn Yaḥyā narrated it, saying: Ṣadaqah ibn ʿAbd Allāh narrated to us, from Hishām al-Kinānī, from Anas, with wording similar to the hadith under discussion, adding: “Among My believing servants are those who seek the door of worship, but I restrain them from it lest it enter him”