I say: This chain of transmission is very weak. Khālid ibn Ilyās was abandoned in hadith, as al-Ḥāfiẓ stated in al-Taqrīb. Al-Ṭabarānī also narrated it through his chain in al-Kabīr, and al-Suyūṭī attributed it solely to him in al-Jāmiʿ. Al-Haythamī and others likewise deemed it defective on this account.

However, al-Bukhārī (6/86) narrated, on the authority of Kaʿb ibn Mālik: “The Prophet ﷺ set out on Thursday for the campaign of Tabūk, and he liked to set out on Thursday.” In another version recorded by him: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ would hardly ever set out on a journey except on Thursday.” It was also narrated by al-Bayhaqī (9/191) and Aḥmad (3/456).

Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr narrated from Mahdī ibn Maymūn, from Wāṣil, the client of Abū ʿUyaynah, who said: “It has reached me that, whenever the Prophet ﷺ travelled, he preferred to set out on Thursday.” This chain has a double break, though its narrators are trustworthy.

2129 — “He would accept an invitation to barley bread and rancid fat.”

Al-Tirmidhī narrated it in al-Shamāʾil (p. 190), from al-Aʿmash, from Anas ibn Mālik, as a report attributed to the Prophet ﷺ.

I say: The narrators in this chain are trustworthy and are narrators used by Muslim, except that no direct hearing by al-Aʿmash from Anas has been established when he relates it merely with the “from” formula. But Qatādah corroborated him, saying: Anas told me: “A tailor in Medina invited the Prophet ﷺ to a meal. He said: There was barley bread with rancid fat, and there was...”