I say: ʿAmr ibn Khālid—the Egyptian—is trustworthy. Ibn Lahīʿah is truthful, though he has poor retention; nevertheless, he is strengthened by the corroborating reports mentioned before him. Thus, taken together, the hadith is, in my view, at least good. Allah knows best.

2316 — “Whoever has a man embrace Islam at his hands, that man is his client.”

It has been reported from the hadiths of Abū Umāmah and Tamīm al-Dārī, and from Rāshid ibn Saʿd in mursal form.

1. As for the hadith of Abū Umāmah, it is narrated by Muʿāwiyah ibn Yaḥyā al-Ṣadafī, from al-Qāsim al-Shāmī, from Abū Umāmah, attributed to the Prophet. It was transmitted by Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr in his Sunan (3/1/56), Abū Ḥāmid al-Ḥaḍramī in his Hadith (157/2), al-Dāraquṭnī in his Sunan (p. 502), al-Bayhaqī (10/298), al-Ṭabarānī in al-Kabīr (8/223/7781), and Ibn ʿAsākir in al-Tārīkh (16/392/2).

I say: This is a weak chain of transmission, on account of this al-Ṣadafī. Ibn Abī Ḥātim mentioned him in al-ʿIlal (2/53) and said: “Abū Zurʿah declined to read it out to us, and we did not hear it from him.” Jaʿfar ibn al-Zubayr also corroborated him, narrating from al-Qāsim ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān with similar wording. It was transmitted by al-Mukhalliṣ in al-Fawāʾid al-Muntaqāh (13/248/1), Ibn ʿAdī (folio 53/1)—from whom al-Bayhaqī also transmitted it (10/298)—and likewise by Saʿīd ibn Manṣūr, as cited in Tahdhīb Ibn al-Qayyim (4/186). However, this Jaʿfar is abandoned, as ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq stated in his Aḥkām (168/2).