Al-Nasāʾī and Aḥmad (5/350, 358, and 361) recorded it—the wording being Aḥmad’s—through several routes from al-Aʿmash, from Saʿd ibn ʿUbaydah, from him.
I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission meeting the conditions of the two Shaykhs, or those of Muslim. If Ibn Buraydah was ʿAbd Allāh, he was one of the narrators of both; but if he was Sulaymān, he was a narrator of Muslim alone. Ibn Ḥibbān (2204) also recorded, through this route, only the portion attributed to the Prophet.
The third: from Ṭāwūs, from Buraydah, with the same wording, except for the phrase, “O Allah …” Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in al-Ṣaghīr (no. 171, al-Rawḍ) and al-Awsaṭ (341), through two routes from ʿAbd al-Razzāq, with two chains from him to Ṭāwūs. Its narrators are trustworthy.
- ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, may Allah be pleased with him. There are nine routes from him:
The first: from ʿAmr ibn Saʿīd, who said that he heard ʿAlī, may Allah be pleased with him, adjuring the people in al-Raḥbah: “Whoever heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say…” He then cited the first part of the hadith. Six men then stood and testified. Al-Nasāʾī recorded it through the route of Hāniʾ ibn Ayyūb, from Ṭāwūs—the original reads: Ṭalḥah—from ʿAmr ibn Saʿīd—the original reads: Saʿd.
I say: Ibn Saʿd said of Hāniʾ: “There is weakness in him.” Ibn Ḥibbān included him in al-Thiqāt; thus, he may be cited in corroborative reports and supporting chains.
The second: from Zādhān ibn ʿUmar, who said: “I heard ʿAlī in al-Raḥbah…” The hadith is similar. It further states that thirteen men stood and testified. Aḥmad (1/84) and Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim (1372) recorded it through the route of Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Kindī, from him.
I say: I do not know this al-Kindī. Al-Taʿjīl leaves his entry blank, and al-Haythamī said: