It has another chain of transmission. Abu al-Qasim al-Mihrani transmitted it in Selected Benefits (2/10/1), as did al-Sahmi (234) and al-Khatib in The History (14/241), from Ali ibn Yazid al-Suda'i, who said: Abu Shaybah al-Jawhari informed us, from Anas, attributing it to the Prophet, with the addition: “Allah will accept from him neither voluntary acts nor obligatory duties.” He explained: “Al-‘adl refers to the obligatory duties, and al-sarf to voluntary acts.”

Al-Mihrani said: “This is a singular hadith reported from Anas. Abu Shaybah al-Jawhari alone transmitted it from him, and we know of no one other than Ali ibn Yazid al-Suda'i who transmitted it from Abu Shaybah.”

I say: There is some weakness in him, as stated in al-Taqrib. Abu Shaybah al-Jawhari was Yusuf ibn Ibrahim al-Tamimi, and he is weak.

It also has a supporting mursal report, transmitted by al-Baghawi in The Hadith of Ali ibn al-Ja‘d (9/92/2), from Fudayl ibn Marzuq, from Muhammad ibn Abi Marzuq, from Ata ibn Abi Rabah, attributing it directly to the Prophet as a mursal report, but without the words, “and the angels.” I say: Its narrators are trustworthy except for Muhammad ibn Abi Marzuq, for whom I have found no biographical entry. Al-Mizzi mentioned among the shaykhs of Fudayl ibn Marzuq Muhammad ibn Sa‘id, the companion of Ikrimah; perhaps he is the same person. Yet I have not identified him either, nor did al-Mizzi mention him among those who narrated from Ikrimah. Allah knows best. Nor do I consider it unlikely that he is the Muhammad ibn Khalid mentioned below.

Ibn Khalid also corroborated him in transmitting it from Ata. Abu Nu‘aym transmitted it in The Hilyah (7/103) through Abu Yahya al-Himmani, from Sufyan, from him. He said: “This is how al-Himmani transmitted it from Sufyan, rendering it mursal; he alone transmitted it from Sufyan. Muhammad ibn Khalid is known as Abu Himnah al-Kufi al-Dabbi.”