al-Aṣamm, in A Section of His Hadiths (192/2, collection 24), from Abū Isḥāq, from Numayr ibn ʿUrayb, from ʿĀmir ibn Masʿūd, as a Prophetic report. It was likewise narrated by al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī in al-Mukhtārah (45–46), in al-Aḥādīth wa al-Ḥikāyāt (13/169/1), by Ibn Abī Shaybah in al-Muṣannaf (2/181/2), by al-Quḍāʿī (13/1), and by al-Bayhaqī in al-Sunan (4/496).

I say: This is a weak chain of transmission. Concerning this Numayr, al-Dhahabī said: “He is unknown.”

I say: Ibn Abī al-Dunyā also transmitted it in al-Tahajjud (2/54/1): ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad informed us; he said: Asad informed us; he said: Isrāʾīl informed us from Abū Isḥāq, from a man of Quraysh called ʿĀmir ibn Masʿūd, with the same wording as a Prophetic report, adding: “Its night is long, while its day is short.”

Ibn ʿAsākir (14/359/1) narrated it by another route from Isrāʾīl with the same wording and said: “This is how it appears in this narration; Numayr ibn ʿUrayb, between Abū Isḥāq and ʿĀmir, has been omitted from its chain of transmission.” He then cited it by way of Aḥmad, from Abū Isḥāq, from Numayr, from ʿĀmir, with the same wording.

It has a corroborating report, transmitted by al-Ṭabarānī in al-Ṣaghīr (p. 148, no. 69, al-Rawḍ), Ibn ʿAdī (177/1), and Ibn ʿAsākir (2/111/1), from al-Walīd ibn Muslim, from Saʿīd ibn Bashīr, from Qatādah, from Anas, as a Prophetic report. The first two said: “No one narrated it from Qatādah except Saʿīd; al-Walīd alone narrated it.”

I say: He is trustworthy, but he practised concealment in transmission by leveling, and he related its chain using an ambiguous “from” formula. Saʿīd ibn Bashīr is weak.