al-Zubayr, from him. This is a weak chain of transmission.
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From Ḥamzah ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUtbah, who said: “The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, possessed qualities not found in tyrants: no person, red or black, would invite him without his accepting … and he would ride an unsaddled donkey, with nothing upon it.” It was narrated by Ibn Saʿd. Its narrators are trustworthy, apart from this Ḥamzah. Ibn Abī Ḥātim included his biography (1/2/212), based on reports from a group who narrated from him; al-Bukhārī added another trustworthy narrator, and Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in Trustworthy Successors (4/169). Thus, the hadith is a good mursal report.
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From al-Shaʿbī: the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, rode an unsaddled donkey. Ibn Saʿd also narrated it, through Muslim, the client of al-Shaʿbī, from al-Shaʿbī as a mursal report. I do not know who this Muslim is.
2126 — “He liked to set out against his enemy when the sun had passed its zenith.”
It was narrated by Aḥmad (4/356), his son ʿAbd Allāh, and al-Ṭabarānī in al-Kabīr, through Ibn ʿAyyāsh, from Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah, from Abū al-Naḍr, from ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Maʿmar, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Awfā, who said: Then he cited it. I say: This is a weak chain of transmission. ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Maʿmar is unknown, as al-Ḥusaynī stated. Ibn ʿAyyāsh—namely, Ismāʿīl al-Ḥimṣī—is weak in his narrations from the people of the Ḥijāz, and this is one of them. Al-Haythamī said (5/325): “It was narrated by Aḥmad and al-Ṭabarānī through Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAyyāsh, from Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah, and it is …”