from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Ẓabyān, from Salmān, in a report attributed to the Prophet. Ibn Bishrān also narrated it in al-Amālī (197/1): ʿAbd al-Bāqī ibn Qāniʿ informed us; Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Nahritīrī related to us; Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Maqdisī related to us; al-Firyābī related to us with it.

I say: Its narrators are trustworthy, being narrators of the two Shaykhs, except for ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAsqalānī. Al-Firyābī—whose name was Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, not ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAsqalānī—was described by Ibn ʿAdī as “weak; he steals hadiths.” Al-Dāraquṭnī, however, deemed him trustworthy, and Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him and included his hadith in his Ṣaḥīḥ.

As for the corroborating narration of Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Maqdisī, he was Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Sarj al-Firyābī, not the son of the aforementioned al-Firyābī, as stated in al-Tahdhīb. He was truthful, as Abū Ḥātim said, and al-Dhahabī followed him in al-Kāshif. As for Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Nahritīrī, al-Khaṭīb said (3/241): “He was trustworthy, virtuous, and eminent.” He was also corroborated by ʿAbdān ibn Aḥmad, as narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr (6/292/6095).

I say: I then found the hadith in al-Amthāl by Abū al-Shaykh al-Aṣbahānī (137), through another route from Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf, with the same wording. He also has a corroborating report for it (139), narrated by Usāmah ibn Zayd—I say: he is al-Laythī—from Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār, from Ibn ʿUmar, in a report attributed to the Prophet, with the same wording. This is a good chain of transmission.

Al-Suyūṭī attributed the hadith to al-Ṭabarānī and al-Ḍiyāʾ on the authority of Salmān. Al-Manāwī then said: “Al-Haythamī said: Its transmission revolves around Usāmah ibn Zayd ibn Aslam, who is very weak, as stated in”