ibn ʿUtaybah, from Maymūn ibn Abī Shabīb, from the Prophet, as a mursal report; and this is more likely.”

I say: I do not share this view, for both ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muslim—al-Qismalī—and Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim are trustworthy. Indeed, the former may be more reliable. Al-Ḥāfiẓ said of him: “Trustworthy and devout, though he occasionally erred.” He said of Jarīr: “Trustworthy, but there is weakness in his reports from Qatādah, and he made errors when narrating from memory.”

I say: If there is no error in the chain of transmission of this report, then at the very least each of the two chains should be judged preserved, and al-Aʿmash narrated it in both ways. And Allah knows best.

2199 — “The rider should greet the pedestrian; the pedestrian should greet the one who is seated; and the fewer should greet the greater number. Whoever returns the greeting receives its reward, while whoever does not return it receives nothing.”

Al-Bukhārī recorded it in al-Adab al-Mufrad (992), through ʿAlī ibn al-Mubārak, from Yaḥyā, who said: Zayd ibn Salām narrated to us from his grandfather, Abū Salām, from Abū Rāshid al-Ḥubrānī, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Shibl, who said: “I heard the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, say...” and he then mentioned it.

ʿAbd al-Razzāq also recorded it in al-Muṣannaf (19444), and Aḥmad (3/444) narrated it from him, from Maʿmar, from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr, through the same chain. I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. Its narrators are trustworthy and are among Muslim’s narrators, apart from Abū Rāshid al-Ḥubrānī, who is trustworthy.

Note: The following appears in the commentary of the eminent Faḍl Allāh al-Jīlānī on al-Adab al-Mufrad (2/457):