What further supports the foregoing is that it has another chain from Ibn ʿAbbās: Zakariyyā ibn Yaḥyā al-Ḍarīr said: Shabābah ibn Sawwār informed us; he said: al-Mughīrah ibn Muslim informed us, from Hishām ibn Ḥassān, from Kathīr, the freedman of Samurah, from him, traced back to the Prophet, with the same wording, except that he said: “and one who has anointed himself with saffron.” Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in al-Awsaṭ (5536, according to my numbering) and said: “No one narrated it from Kathīr, the freedman of Samurah, except Hishām; and no one narrated it from Hishām except al-Mughīrah ibn Muslim. Shabābah alone narrated it.”

I say: He was a truthful narrator among the narrators of the two Ṣaḥīḥs, and his teacher al-Mughīrah was good in hadith, as al-Dhahabī stated in al-Kāshif. Hishām ibn Ḥassān was trustworthy and among the narrators of the two Ṣaḥīḥs. His teacher Kathīr was Ibn Kathīr, the freedman of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Samurah. Ibn Ḥibbān said in al-Thiqāt: “Qatādah and the people of Baṣrah narrated from him.” Al-ʿIjlī also declared him trustworthy; thus, he was good in hadith. Al-Khaṭīb gave a biographical notice for Zakariyyā al-Ḍarīr (8/457–458), citing a number of narrators from him, and mentioned no criticism of him.

The hadith also has a corroborating report from Buraydah, but it is very weak. Nevertheless, there is no harm in mentioning it and citing its sources. Its wording is: “There are three whom the angels do not approach: an intoxicated person, one anointed with khalūq, and a person in a state of major ritual impurity.” Al-Bukhārī recorded it in al-Tārīkh (3/1/74), and al-ʿUqaylī in al-Ḍuʿafāʾ (p.