I say: This indicates that it is a rejected report attributed to ʿAmr ibn Ḥurayth, and its defect lies with this al-Ṣabāḥ. Al-Haythamī cited it in al-Majmaʿ (4/111), on the authority of both Ḥudhayfah and ʿAmr ibn Ḥurayth, traced back to the Prophet, and said: “Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Kabīr, and its chain includes al-Ṣabāḥ ibn Yaḥyā, who is abandoned.”

The hadith also has another supporting witness from the hadith of Abū Umāmah, but its chain is extremely weak. It is narrated by Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥibbān ibn Ḥakīm ibn ʿAlqamah ibn Saʿd ibn Muʿādh, from Ḥammād ibn Salamah, from Burd ibn Sinān, from Makhūl, from him, traced back to the Prophet. Ibn ʿAdī recorded it in the biographical notice on this Ibrāhīm (folio 4/1) and said: “He is weak in hadith.” He then cited two hadiths from him, of which this was one, and then said: “These two hadiths, together with other reports of his, are mostly fabricated and rejected; such are all his hadiths.”

In sum, with its corroborating narration and its first supporting witness, the hadith does not fall below the rank of good. And Allah, Most High, knows best.

Then I found in some of my old manuscripts and papers, in my own handwriting, that al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Sakhāwī likewise graded it good in al-Fatāwā al-Ḥadīthiyyah (folio 30/2).

I then found a third supporting witness: ʿAbd al-Quddūs ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAṭṭār narrated to us: Yazīd ibn Tamīm ibn Zayd narrated to me; Abū Marḥūm al-Sindī narrated to me; al-Muntaṣir ibn ʿUmārah narrated to me from his father, from Abū Dharr, traced back to the Prophet, with a similar wording. Al-Ṭabarānī recorded it in al-Awsaṭ (1/143/2) and said: “It is narrated from Abū Dharr only through this chain of transmission; ʿAbd al-Quddūs alone narrated it.”

I say: He was truthful and among al-Bukhārī’s shaykhs, but I did not recognize those between him and Abū Dharr, and