I say: Farqad is weak in hadith, as noted above. Yet when his report is combined with the preceding hadiths whose weakness is not severe—especially the mursal report of Ibn Sābiṭ, whose chain of transmission is authentic—there can then be no doubt that, taken together, the hadith rises to the rank of authentic. This is all the more so since it has a corroborating report from Abū Mālik al-Ashʿarī, whose sources were previously documented under nos. (90 and 91). As for its first part, it is authentically reported from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr; I documented it in al-Rawḍ al-Naḍīr (1004), and it has other corroborating reports mentioned previously under no. (1787).

2204 — “A guest’s first night is a right incumbent upon every Muslim. Whoever wakes in the morning to find a guest in his courtyard owes him a debt: if he wishes, he may demand it; and if he wishes, he may waive it.”

It was recorded by al-Bukhārī in al-Adab al-Mufrad (744), Abū Dāwūd (2/137), Ibn Mājah (2/392), al-Ṭaḥāwī in al-Mushkil (4/39), Aḥmad (4/130, 132, and 133), Tammām (250/2), and Ibn ʿAsākir (17/77/2), through the route of Manṣūr, from al-Shaʿbī, from al-Miqdām Abū Karīmah al-Shāmī, attributed to the Prophet. I say: Its chain of transmission is authentic; its narrators are trustworthy.

Ḥurayz also narrated it from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī ʿAwf al-Jurashī, from al-Miqdām ibn Maʿdīkarib al-Kindī, with similar wording. Aḥmad recorded it (4/130–131). I say: Its chain is also authentic. It has another route containing an objectionable addition, as I explained in Takhrīj al-Mishkāh (4247). It also has an authentic corroborating report from ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir, documented in al-Irwāʾ (2591).