And Muhammad ibn ‘Abd Allah al-Hadrami said: “Truthful.” Ibn Hibban mentioned him in The Trustworthy Narrators. I say: Were it not for the fact that Habib ibn Abi Thabit practised tadlis, I would have judged the chain to be authentic. At the very least, then, it is suitable as a good corroborating report for what preceded. And Allah knows best.

2436 — “There is no slaughtering at graves in Islam.”

It was transmitted by Abu Dawud (2/71), Ahmad (3/197), and al-Ramahurmuzi in al-Muhaddith al-Fasil (The Decisive Hadith Scholar) (p. 46), from ‘Abd al-Razzaq: Ma‘mar informed us, from Thabit, from Anas, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: and he mentioned it. ‘Abd al-Razzaq said: “They used to slaughter a cow or a sheep at the grave.”

I say: This chain is authentic according to the criteria of the two Sahihs. I have found another chain for it, but it is feeble: Sufyan narrates it from Aban, from Anas, with the same wording. It was transmitted by Abu Nu‘aym in al-Hilyah (The Adornment) (7/118) and al-Quda‘i in Musnad al-Shihab (folio 71/2). Aban—who is Ibn Abi ‘Ayyash—is abandoned.

2437 — “No one crosses al-Abtah except at a run.”

It was transmitted by Ibn Majah (2987), Ahmad (6/404–405), and al-Tabarani in al-Kabir (The Major Collection) (25/97/253), from Hisham al-Dastuwa’i, from Budayl ibn Maysarah, from al-Mughirah ibn Hakim, from Safiyyah bint Shaybah, from Shaybah’s female slave, who said: