The following should be added at the end of the discussion:
I say: The hadith has two corroborating reports that strengthen it:
One is from the hadith of ʿĀʾishah, may Allah be pleased with her, and the other is from the hadith of Ḥakīm ibn Ḥizām, may Allah be pleased with him.
Their documentation and a discussion of their respective chains of transmission have already appeared in Volume Three, nos. 1059 and 1060.
- p. 305, Hadith 1727.
I say: The narration of ʿAbd al-Razzāq in al-Muṣannaf (5/382–383), through Maʿmar, likewise reports it as mursal, just as al-Bazzār’s narration does.
Then the volume of al-Ṭabarānī’s al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr containing the hadiths of Kaʿb ibn Mālik was published, and I found the hadith there (19/71/139), through Muḥammad ibn Abī ʿUmar al-ʿAdanī, who said: “ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us,” with the same chain. However, he said: “From a son of Kaʿb ibn Mālik, from his father, who said: Mulaʿib al-Asinnah—the Spearhead Player—came ...” Thus, he narrated it with a connected chain.
This al-ʿAdanī was Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Abī ʿUmar, referred to by his grandfather’s name, and he was one of Muslim’s teachers. However, Abū Ḥātim said: “He was prone to heedlessness.” Therefore, his contradictory version cannot be relied upon.
Likewise, he narrated it with a connected chain, no. 138, through Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr al-Bālisī: Muḥammad ibn Muṣʿab narrated to us; al-Awzāʿī narrated to us from al-Zuhrī, with the same chain.
However, Muḥammad ibn Muṣʿab—al-Qurqasānī—was weak because of his frequent errors, and al-Bālisī was worse than he was.
The connected narration of Ibn al-Mubārak was also included there as no. 162, through Muḥammad ibn Muqātil al-Marwazī: ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Mubārak narrated to us, with the same chain.