Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in al-Thiqāt, in accordance with his principle, which the majority of scholars have not adopted. For this reason, al-Ḥāfiẓ did not declare him trustworthy in al-Taqrīb; rather, he said: “Acceptable”—that is, weak in hadith.

The remaining narrators in the chain are trustworthy. Al-Majmaʿ (7/288) states: “ʿAbd Allah narrated it as a wijādah from his father’s handwriting, as did al-Ṭabarānī, and its narrators are trustworthy.” This is what he said, yet it includes al-Ḥaḍramī, whose status I know nothing about.

Note: It appears as al-Shaybānī, with the dotted shīn, in al-Musnad and al-Mīzān; but the correct form is al-Saybānī, with an undotted sīn carrying fatḥah, followed by a sākin yāʾ and then a bāʾ, as in al-Taqrīb. It likewise appears this way in al-Ṭabarānī. The hadith of Abū Umāmah also has a supporting report with similar wording, narrated by al-Ṭabarānī (20/317/754) from Murrah al-Bahzī. Al-Haythamī said (7/289): “It contains a number of men whom I do not know.” This is what he said; however, those whom he did not know have biographical entries in al-Bukhārī’s Tārīkh and Ibn Abī Ḥātim’s al-Jarḥ wa-l-Taʿdīl, as our colleague Shaykh Ḥamdī al-Salafī established in his annotation to al-Muʿjam. The correct statement, therefore, is: “It contains narrators who have not been declared trustworthy, except by Ibn Ḥibbān, for he declared one of them trustworthy.” And Allah knows best.

1958 — “A group from my Ummah will continue fighting for the truth until Allah’s command comes.”

Al-Ṭayālisī narrated it (p. 94, no. 689): Shuʿbah narrated to us, from Abū ʿAbd Allah al-Shāmī, who said: “I heard Muʿāwiyah delivering a sermon and saying: ‘People of Syria, the Anṣārī—that is, Zayd ibn Arqam—told me that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said...’” He then mentioned the hadith. “And I consider you to be them, people of Syria.” Al-Haythamī said regarding the hadith in al-Majmaʿ (7/287):