I say: Its narrators are reliable, except for Ibn al-Musāwir, who is unknown, as al-Dhahabī stated in al-Mīzān. No one besides this ʿAbd al-Malik narrated from him, as stated by Ibn al-Madīnī. As for Ibn Ḥibbān, he listed him among the reliable narrators in al-Thiqāt (1/110), and it seems that this was al-Mundhirī’s principal basis in al-Targhīb (3/237), followed by al-Haythamī in al-Majmaʿ (8/167), in their statement: “Al-Ṭabarānī and Abū Yaʿlā narrated it, and its narrators are reliable.”

Al-Ḥākim said, “Its chain of transmission is authentic,” and al-Dhahabī agreed with him.

That is what they both said! Indeed, it is authentic on account of its corroborating reports, for it has been narrated through Anas, Ibn ʿAbbās, and ʿĀʾishah.

As for the report of Anas, it is narrated by Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al-Athram: “Hammām narrated to us; Thābit narrated to us from him,” as a report attributed to the Prophet, with the wording:

“Whoever spends the night satiated while his neighbor beside him is hungry—and he knows it—has not believed in me.”

Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (1/66/1). Al-Dhahabī said in his work The Rights of the Neighbor (folio 17/1): “Abū Zurʿah deemed al-Athram weak, and this is a rejected hadith.”

I say: Abū Ḥātim also deemed him weak. However, al-Haythamī said: “Al-Ṭabarānī and al-Bazzār recorded it, and al-Bazzār’s chain is good.” The same appears in al-Targhīb (3/236), except that he said, “Its chain is good.” This could mean that the pronoun refers to the hadith, or it could refer to al-Bazzār; and perhaps this is