Al-Bukhārī transmitted it in al-Adab al-Mufrad (1047 and 1048) through two chains, one of which is good. Its narrators are reliable and are among Muslim’s narrators, except for Muhājir ibn Abī Muslim, the client of Asmāʾ. A number of trustworthy narrators reported from him, and Ibn Ḥibbān declared him trustworthy (5/427). Shahr ibn Ḥawshab also corroborated him; he is acceptable in corroborative reports, and this is the other chain. It was also transmitted by Abū Dāwūd, al-Tirmidhī, and Aḥmad (6/452 and 457–458).

2140 — “He walked with a gait that showed he was neither infirm nor indolent.”

Al-Mukhalliṣ narrated it in al-Fawāʾid al-Muntaqāh (11/58/2, from the selected material therein): al-Ḥusayn—that is, Ibn Ismāʿīl—narrated to us: ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Jarīr ibn Jablah narrated to us, saying: Ibn Abī Bakr narrated to us: Yaḥyā ibn Rāshid narrated to us: Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind narrated to us, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, attributing it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. Ibn Abī Bakr is al-Muqaddamī. Al-Baghawī also narrated it through another chain from him in Sharḥ al-Sunnah (4/70/2). I say: Yaḥyā ibn Rāshid—al-Māzinī—is weak.

However, Ḥammād ibn Salamah corroborated him. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarbī said in al-Ḥarbiyyāt (2/47/2): ʿAbd Allāh ibn Usayd informed us; Abū Masʿūd Aḥmad ibn al-Furāt informed us; Zayd ibn ʿAwf informed us; Ḥammād ibn Salamah informed us, from Dāwūd ibn Abī Hind, from Jābir—namely Ibn Zayd, Abū al-Shaʿthāʾ—from Ibn ʿAbbās, with similar wording. But Zayd ibn ʿAwf is abandoned.

It also has a supporting mursal report, narrated by Ibn al-Mubārak in al-Zuhd (288/873): Abū Isrāʾīl informed us, from Sayyār Abū al-Ḥakam, attributing it to the Prophet, with the wording: “He would walk with the gait of a person going about the marketplace, neither like one infirm nor one indolent.” Abū Isrāʾīl was named Ismāʿīl ibn Khalīfah; he was truthful but had poor retention.