Ibn Shahin narrated it in al-Targhib (fol. 282/1) through al-Fadl ibn al-Fadl Abu ʿUbaydah, who said: “ʿAsim narrated to us,” with the same chain.

However, I have not been able to identify this ʿAsim, and al-Fadl is weak in hadith.

Thirdly, ʿAmr ibn Himran narrated it from Muhammad ibn ʿAmr, likewise. Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Awsat (no. 4322): “ʿAli ibn Saʿid al-Razi narrated to us; Nuh ibn Anas al-Razi narrated to us; ʿAmr ibn Himran narrated to us,” and he said: “No one narrated it from Muhammad except ʿAmr.” This is what he said, but it is refuted by what has preceded. It is curious that Ibn Khuzaymah may be corrected by this statement and narration of his, while al-Tabarani may be corrected by this narration—confirming the well-known saying: “How much the earlier scholars left for those who came after!”

I say: This is a good chain of transmission, and its narrators have been declared trustworthy. As for al-Haythami’s statement in Majmaʿ al-Zawaʾid (2/239): “Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Awsat, and it contains Muhammad ibn ʿAmr, concerning whom there is some criticism, as well as someone whom I do not know,” the latter part of his statement can only refer to ʿAmr ibn Himran and his narrator Nuh, or to one of them. Yet I have established the trustworthiness of both of them. As for ʿAmr ibn Himran, he was from Basra and settled in Rayy. A number of trustworthy narrators related from him, whom Ibn Abi Hatim named in his biography (3/1/227), and he reported from his father: “His hadith is sound.” As for Nuh ibn Anas, he was a Qur’an reciter. Ibn Abi Hatim said (4/1/486):