I say: Yet it has been corroborated, as follows. Al-Haythami said in al-Majmaʿ (8/192):
“Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Awsaṭ and al-Kabir. Its chain includes Muhammad ibn Hassan al-Samti, whom Ibn Maʿin and others deemed trustworthy, though there is some weakness in him. However, his shaykh, Abu ʿUthman ʿAbd Allah ibn Zayd al-Himsi, was declared weak by al-Azdi.”
I say: He was corroborated by Abu ʿUthman Muʿawiyah ibn Yahya al-Shami, who narrated it to us from al-Awzaʿi. It was recorded by Yahya ibn Mandah in his Aḥādīth (folio 91/1), Tammam in al-Fawaʾid (27/2), Abu Nuʿaym in Akhbar Isfahan (2/276), Ibn ʿAsakir in al-Tarikh (16/395/1), and al-Diyaʾ in al-Muntaqa min Masmuʿatihi bi-Marw (15/1). Ibn ʿAsakir mentioned him in the biography of this Abu ʿUthman al-Shami and reported from Abu Ahmad—namely, Ibn ʿAdi—that he said: “His hadiths are rejected.”
Abu Bakr al-Kalabadhi said in Miftah al-Maʿani (257/1): Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Faqih narrated to us; al-Daqiqi, Abu Muhammad ʿAbd Allah ibn Yazid, narrated to us from al-Awzaʿi, with it.
I say: I have not identified Abu Muhammad ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn Yazid. Among those who narrated from al-Awzaʿi was ʿAbd Allah ibn Yazid ibn Rashid al-Qurashi al-Dimashqi al-Muqriʾ, Abu Bakr, who was trustworthy. He died in 218 AH; Abu Zurʿah and others narrated from him, and Ibn Abi Hatim included his biography. However, there appears to be an omission in the chain, for the latter’s kunyah was Abu Bakr, whereas the narrator of this hadith was Abu Muhammad al-Daqiqi. Perhaps someone has been omitted between Abu Muhammad and ʿAbd Allah ibn Yazid. And Allah knows best.
In any case, the hadith is good in my view on the strength of all these corroborating chains. Al-Mundhiri said in al-Targhib (3/250):