in al-Kabīr of al-ʿAskari, in al-Ḥilyah, and by al-Bayhaqī in his Sunan; thus he failed to cite al-Tirmidhī, Aḥmad, and al-Ḥarbī. I have not found it either in al-Ghumārī’s index to al-Ḥilyah, and Allah knows best.

170 – “If you say to the people, ‘Keep quiet,’ while they are talking, you have brought laghw (idle talk) upon yourself.”

Imām Aḥmad related it (2/318): “ʿAbd al-Razzaq ibn Hammām narrated to us; Maʿmar narrated to us; from Hammām; from Abū Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said….” I say: he then mentioned many aḥādīth, and this is one of them.

This chain is sound according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs.

Both al-Bukhārī and Muslim also recorded it in their Ṣaḥīḥs through the route of Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib from Abū Hurayrah, with the wording, “If you say to your companion, ‘Be quiet,’ on Friday while the imam is delivering the sermon, you have engaged in idle talk.”

Muslim—and others besides him—likewise transmitted it through additional chains from Abū Hurayrah, as I explained in Irwāʾ al-Ghalīl (no. 612).

It appears that this is a different ḥadīth being narrated by Hammām—Hammām ibn Munabbih, the brother of Wahb—from Abū Hurayrah, distinct from the version transmitted by Saʿīd and those we have just mentioned. Allah knows best.

The ḥadīth is one of those overlooked by al-Suyūṭī in al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr, so take it as a rare benefit you may not find elsewhere. Allah is the One who grants success.

(“you have brought laghw upon yourself”)—that is, you have uttered vain and unbecoming speech. Al-Rāghib al-Aṣfahānī said in al-Mufradāt: