and al-Ḥākim (3/311), through two chains from Quraysh ibn Anas, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr, from Abū Salamah, from Abū Hurayrah, attributing it to the Prophet. Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr informed me, from Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, that his father bequeathed a garden to the Mothers of the Believers, which was sold after his death for forty thousand dinars. The wording is al-Ḥākim’s. He said: “Authentic according to Muslim’s criteria.” Al-Dhahabī concurred with him.

I say: Rather, it is only good, because Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr has been criticized with regard to his memory. For this reason, Muslim did not rely on him as independent evidence, but only narrated him in corroboration. Both al-Bukhārī and Muslim relied on Quraysh ibn Anas, although he became confused in his later years. Al-Bukhārī himself mentioned, on the authority of Isḥāq ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥabīb ibn al-Shahīd, that he suffered from confusion for six years while at home. Nevertheless, al-Bukhārī narrated in his Ṣaḥīḥ the hadith of Samurah concerning the newborn sacrifice (ʿaqīqah), through ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī al-Aswad from him. This was ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥumayd ibn al-Aswad ibn Abī al-Aswad, a trustworthy memorizer who died in 223 AH. It seems, therefore, that in al-Bukhārī’s view he heard from him before his confusion, and this is what al-Ḥāfiẓ decisively affirmed in his commentary, Fatḥ al-Bārī (9/487). He also mentioned that al-Tirmidhī narrated it through ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, from Ibn Abī al-Aswad, and said: “ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī and his contemporaries heard from Quraysh before his confusion.”

I say: ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī died in 234 AH. Among those who narrated the hadith under discussion from Quraysh ibn Anas was Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, as recorded by Abū Nuʿaym, and he died in 233 AH. Thus, he too heard from him before his confusion. Al-Ḥāfiẓ alluded to this in his entry on Quraysh ibn Anas in al-Tahdhīb. And Allah knows best.

As for what al-Khaṭīb narrated in al-Tārīkh (7/13), through Idrīs ibn Jaʿfar al-ʿAṭṭār: Abū Badr Shujāʿ ibn al-Walīd narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr narrated to us—with the wording: “The best of you are those who are best to their families, and I am the best of you to my family”—it is rejected through this chain, because al-Dāraquṭnī said of this Idrīs: