Al-Mukhalliṣ transmitted it in “The Tenth of His Hadiths” (208/2), and Ibn ʿAsākir (17/215/2), through al-Muʾammal ibn Īhāb, from him with this chain. This is a good chain of transmission. All its narrators are trustworthy narrators of the two Ṣaḥīḥ collections, apart from al-Muʾammal, who was truthful but had some errors.

It has a supporting report in the hadith of Ibn Masʿūd, narrated by Yaḥyā ibn al-Mundhir: Abū al-Ajlaḥ informed us, from al-Aʿmash, from Yaḥyā ibn Waththāb, from ʿAlqamah, from him. Al-Ṭabarānī transmitted it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (no. 10069). Al-Dāraquṭnī and others deemed Yaḥyā ibn al-Mundhir weak. The wording in the original is “Abū al-Ajlaḥ,” but perhaps the correct reading is Ibn al-Ajlaḥ, for he narrated from al-Aʿmash. He was ʿAbdullāh ibn al-Ajlaḥ, and he was truthful.

It has also been narrated from Ibn Masʿūd as a report attributed to the Companion. Al-Rāmahurmuzī transmitted it in al-Muḥaddith al-Fāṣil (p. 152, Ẓāhiriyyah manuscript), through Bishr ibn al-Walīd: Muḥammad ibn Ṭalḥah narrated to us; Rūḥ narrated to us from Nafsi, that he related to him a hadith from Zubayd, from Murrah, from him, with this wording. Bishr ibn al-Walīd is somewhat weak.

Likewise, Manṣūr ibn Zādhān narrated it from Saʿīd ibn Abī Burdah, from his father, from Abū Mūsā, with this wording, as a report attributed to Abū Mūsā himself. Aḥmad transmitted it in al-Zuhd (199).

I say: Its chain is also authentic as a report attributed to the Companion. This does not conflict with its attribution to the Prophet, for a narrator may sometimes not feel inclined to attribute it directly to the Prophet and therefore stop it at the Companion. Thus, it is authentic both as a report attributed to the Prophet and as a report attributed to the Companion.