by a group of narrators:
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Abū Salamah, who said that he heard Abū Naḍrah relate it.
It was recorded by Aḥmad (3/44) and by Ibn ʿAsākir (7/91/2), and the latter identified Abū Salamah as Saʿīd ibn Zayd. I have been unable to verify this; it seems more likely that the name is a slip on the part of one of the transmitters, for I have found no one whose kunyah is Abū Salamah bearing that name, not even in al-Dūlābī’s al-Kunā. The closest candidate is ʿAbbād ibn Manṣūr al-Nājī al-Baṣrī, the judge, who belongs to this generation, and from whom Shuʿbah ibn al-Ḥajjāj transmits—and Shuʿbah is the one who narrates this ḥadīth from him. If that is correct, the chain is ḥasan when coupled with the preceding one, for ʿAbbād likewise suffers weakness only in his memory. -
Al-Mustamir ibn al-Riyān al-Iyādī, who said: “Abū Naḍrah narrated it to us.”
It was recorded by al-Ṭayālisī (2158), Aḥmad (3/46–47), and Abū Yaʿlā in his Musnad (78/2, 83/1). Al-Mustamir is trustworthy and is among Muslim’s narrators, and the rest of the transmitters are likewise reliable; therefore the isnād is ṣaḥīḥ according to Muslim’s criterion. -
Al-Taymī, who said: “Abū Naḍrah narrated it to us,” but with the wording, “when he sees it, or attends it, or hears it.” Abū Saʿīd then said, “I wish I had not heard it,” and Abū Naḍrah likewise said, “I wish I had not heard it.”
It was recorded by Aḥmad (3/53): “Yaḥyā narrated to us from al-Taymī.” I say: this chain is also ṣaḥīḥ according to Muslim’s standard. Al-Taymī’s name is Sulaymān ibn Ṭarḥān; he is trustworthy and both of the Two Shaykhs relied upon him. -
Qatādah, who said: “I heard Abū Naḍrah relate it,” and he added, “Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī said: ‘Affliction has continued to befall us until we have grown weak, and now we verge upon evil.’”
It was recorded by al-Ṭayālisī (2151): “Shuʿbah narrated to us from Qatādah,” and by Aḥmad (3/92) and al-Bayhaqī (10/90) through two other routes from Shuʿbah. In one of his versions