“Its chain of transmission is authentic.” Al-Dhahabi rebutted this, saying: “I say: It is interrupted.”

That is, there is a break between Ali ibn al-Husayn and Umar. Indeed, the interruption between Muhammad—who is Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib—and Umar is even greater. See also the previously cited statement of al-Hafiz under the discussion of the jurisprudence of the preceding hadith (99).

Ibn Asakir also recorded it in Tarikh Dimashq (6/330–331) through two other chains from Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Baqir, who said: Umar said ... and he then cited something similar. In one of his versions, through the route of al-Zubayr ibn Bakkar, it is reported with a double break and without a chain of transmission: “Ali said to him: ‘I shall send her to you, and if you are pleased with her, then I have given her to you in marriage.’ So he sent her to him wearing a cloak and told her: ‘Say to him: This is the cloak of which I spoke to you.’ She said this to Umar, and he said to her: ‘Tell him: I approve of it; may Allah be pleased with you.’ Then he placed his hand on her calf and uncovered it. She said to him: ‘Would you do this?! Were you not the Commander of the Believers, I would break your nose!’ Then she left and went to her father, informed him of what had happened, and said: ‘You sent me to a wicked old man!’ He replied: ‘Easy, my daughter, for he is your husband.’ Umar then came to the gathering of the Emigrants ...” the hadith.

The third route: al-Tabarani said in al-Kabir (1/124/1): Muhammad ibn Abdullah narrated to us; al-Hasan ibn Sahl al-Hannat reported to us; Sufyan ibn Uyaynah reported from Jafar ibn Muhammad, from his father, from Jabir, who said: “I heard Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, say”—then he cited it as a report attributed to the Prophet.

Al-Diya also recorded it through al-Tabarani in al-Mukhtarah (nos. 95 and 96—edited by me).

I say: This is a chain whose narrators are trustworthy hadith masters, apart from this al-Hannat. Al-Samani mentioned him under this occupational designation, al-Hannat, which denotes the sale of wheat, but did not offer either criticism or accreditation concerning him. In my view, it is possible that he is al-Hasan ibn Sahl al-Jafari, as in al-Jarh (1/2/17), or al-Jufi, as in Thiqāt Ibn Hibban, according to the marginal note therein. Ibn Abi Hatim stated that Abu Zurah narrated from him. Moreover,