Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim recorded it (1373) from him—namely, al-Muhājir ibn ʿUmayrah—with a weak chain of transmission. This is how he is mentioned in al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl (Narrator Criticism and Accreditation) (4/1/261), through the report of ʿAdī ibn Thābit al-Anṣārī from him. No criticism or accreditation of him is mentioned there; the same is true in Ibn Ḥibbān’s al-Thiqāt (The Reliable Narrators) (3/256).
- Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī. Rayyāḥ ibn al-Ḥārith narrated it from him, saying: “A group came to ʿAlī in al-Raḥbah and said, ‘Peace be upon you, O our mawlā.’ He said, ‘How can I be your mawlā when you are Arabs?’ They replied, ‘We heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say on the day of Ghadīr Khumm:’” He then mentioned it without the addition. Rayyāḥ said: “When they departed, I followed them and asked, ‘Who are these people?’ They said, ‘They are a group from the Anṣār, among whom is Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī.’”
Aḥmad (5/419) and al-Ṭabarānī (4052 and 4053) recorded it through Ḥanash ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Laqīṭ al-Nakhaʿī al-Ashjaʿī, from Rayyāḥ ibn al-Ḥārith.
I say: This is a sound chain of transmission, its narrators being reliable. Al-Haythamī said: “It was narrated by Aḥmad and al-Ṭabarānī, and Aḥmad’s narrators are reliable.”
- Al-Barāʾ ibn ʿĀzib. ʿAdī ibn Thābit narrated it from him, saying: “We were travelling with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, when we halted at Ghadīr Khumm. The call was made among us: ‘The prayer is about to begin.’ The ground beneath two trees was cleared for the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and he led the noon prayer. Then he took ʿAlī’s hand, may Allah be pleased with him, and said: ‘Do you not know that I have more right over every believer than he has over himself?’ ...” The hadith is like the report of Fiṭr ibn Khalīfah from Zayd. He added: “He said: Then ʿUmar met him afterward and said to him, ‘Congratulations, O son of Abū Ṭālib! You have become, morning and evening, the mawlā of every believing man and woman.’”
Aḥmad and his son, in his supplementary additions (4/281), and Ibn Mājah (116), in abbreviated form, recorded it by way of