Munabbih, from Abu Hurayrah, attributed to the Prophet. I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission that meets the criteria of al-Bukhari and Muslim.

It was also recorded by Abu al-Hasan Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Sulami in The Sahifah of Hammam ibn Munabbih (no. 137): “Abd al-Razzaq narrated to us through this chain.”

Muhammad ibn Shabuyah—who was Ibn Ishaq al-Sijzi—contradicted them, saying: “Abd al-Razzaq informed us, from Ma‘mar, from al-Zuhri, from Anas,” through this chain. Ibn ‘Adi also recorded it (2/374) and said: “Ibn Shabuyah is weak; he reverses hadiths and steals them.”

Abd al-Razzaq was not alone in reporting it. Abu Dawud said: “Muhammad ibn al-Mutawakkil al-‘Asqalani narrated to us: Abd al-Razzaq narrated to us”; and, through another chain, “Ja‘far ibn Musafir al-Tunisi narrated to us: Zayd ibn al-Mubarak narrated to us: ‘Abd al-Malik al-San‘ani narrated to us”—both from Ma‘mar, through this chain. The narrators in this second chain are all trustworthy, except for ‘Abd al-Malik—namely, Ibn Muhammad al-San‘ani—who is somewhat weak in hadith. As for Muhammad ibn al-Mutawakkil al-‘Asqalani in the first chain, he is weak; yet his weakness does not impair the hadith, because he is corroborated by al-Sulami and others whom we mentioned shortly before.

Once this is understood, al-Manawi’s declaring the hadith weak—after tracing it to Abu Dawud and Ibn Majah—when he said, “It contains Muhammad ibn al-Mutawakkil al-‘Asqalani, whom al-Dhahabi listed among the weak narrators, and Abu Hatim said: ‘He is weak’”—contains several errors. The first is that this al-‘Asqalani is also in Ibn Majah’s chain; but that is not so, for he said: