Moreover, it is known that he narrated only from trustworthy narrators. Al-Haythami also deemed him trustworthy in al-Majmaʿ (9/173). And Allah knows best.

Then I found in Thiqāt Ibn Ḥibbān (8/181): “Al-Ḥasan ibn Sahl al-Khayyāṭ [thus written], who narrated from Abū Usāmah and the Kufans. Al-Ḥaḍramī narrated from him.” I say: This is indeed the same man, for al-Ḥaḍramī is Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh, al-Ṭabarānī’s shaykh in this hadith. “Al-Khayyāṭ” is a scribal error; the correct reading is “al-Ḥannāṭ,” as I established in Taysīr al-Intifāʿ. May Allah, through His generosity and grace, facilitate its completion for me.

The fourth route: From Yūnus ibn Abī Yaʿfūr, from his father: “I heard ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar say: I heard ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb say”—then he cited it as a report attributed to the Prophet. Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in al-Kabīr (1/124/1), Abū ʿAlī al-Ṣawwāf in al-Fawāʾid (3/165/2), and Abū Nuʿaym in Akhbār Aṣbahān (1/199–200).

I say: This chain, too, is good as corroboration. Yūnus is among the narrators of Muslim, but a number of imams declared him weak. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said in al-Taqrīb: “Truthful, but frequently mistaken.”

He has also been corroborated by someone whose corroboration offers no comfort: Muḥammad ibn ʿUkāshah reported from Sayf ibn Muḥammad, the nephew of Sufyān, from Sufyān al-Thawrī, from Khālid ibn Saʿd ibn ʿUbayd, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, with the same report. Tammām recorded it in al-Fawāʾid (247/2).

I say: This is a fabricated chain of transmission; its flaw lies with this Sayf. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said: “They declared him a liar.” As for Muḥammad ibn ʿUkāshah: if he is al-ʿUkāshī al-Kirmānī, then he is a liar and a fabricator; but if he is Muḥammad ibn ʿUkāshah al-Kūfī, then he is weak. This is problematic, for the biography of the former describes him as a Kūfī, so it is possible that they are one and the same,