without the additional designation “al-Dālānī.” Yet this designation is firmly established in al-Bukhārī’s version. Moreover, he was widely known by his kunyah, and his father’s name was ʿAbd al-Raḥmān; thus, he was Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. This is how they identified him when they gave an entry for his son under the aforementioned kunyah. Thus, al-Būṣīrī failed to recognize him.

I say: Another reason he is deemed weak is that there is inconsistency in his chain of transmission. Wahb ibn Jarīr narrated it: “Shuʿbah informed us, from him,” attributing it to the Prophet. Al-Bukhārī, al-Bayhaqī, and Abū Jaʿfar al-Razzāz, in his Ḥadīth (4/75/1), recorded it through this route. Salm ibn Qutaybah corroborated him: he heard Shuʿbah attribute it to the Prophet. Al-Bukhārī recorded this.

Ibn Mahdī, Ghundar, and Ādam, however, contradicted them, all three narrating it from Shuʿbah as attributed to the Companion Ḥudhayfah. Al-Bukhārī recorded it from them. Al-Ṭayālisī also corroborated them, saying: “Shuʿbah narrated to us, from him,” as a report attributed to the Companion. Ibn Abī Ḥātim mentioned this disagreement concerning Shuʿbah in al-ʿIlal (2/290), citing Wahb’s version attributed to the Prophet and al-Ṭayālisī’s version attributed to the Companion. He then related from his father: “In my view, the version attributed to the Companion is stronger, and Yazīd Abū Khālid is not al-Dālānī.” That is what he said! Yet since al-Bukhārī explicitly states in some narrations of the hadith that he was al-Dālānī, there is no basis for denying it, for one who has retained the information is authoritative over one who has not.

The hadith also has a supporting report from the hadith of Saʿīd ibn Ḥurayth, attributed to the Prophet, with the same wording. It was recorded by Ibn Mājah, al-Bayhaqī, Aḥmad (3/467, 4/307), Ibn ʿAdī (9/1), and al-Ḍiyāʾ in al-Muntaqā min Masmūʿātihi (79/2), through Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Muhājir, who said: ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿUmayr narrated to me from ʿAmr ibn Ḥurayth, from his brother Saʿīd ibn Ḥurayth, with the same report.