Sulayman ibn Musa—the Umayyads’ client. Al-Hafiz said: “Truthful, a jurist; there is some weakness in his hadith transmission.” Regarding Saʿid ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz—the Tanukhi—he said: “A trustworthy imam. Ahmad considered him equal to al-Awzaʿi, and Abu Mushir gave him precedence; however, he became confused in his final years.”
- As for the hadith of Ibn ʿAbbas, al-Haythami cited it in Majmaʿ al-Zawaʾid (3/281) and said: “Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Awsat and al-Saghir. Its chain contains ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar al-ʿUmari, concerning whom there has been criticism, though he was declared trustworthy.”
I say: Malik also cited it in al-Muwattaʾ (3/183, al-Zurqani edition) as a report without a connected chain of transmission. In sum, the hadith is undoubtedly authentic when all these chains are considered together, especially since it is corroborated by a report from Ibn ʿAbbas that he used to sacrifice in Mecca. Al-Bayhaqi narrated this from him with an authentic chain of transmission, and he also narrated something similar from Ibn ʿUmar through a chain containing weakness. And Allah knows best.
2465 — “Once spouses have undergone liʿan—the mutual invocation of divine curses—and separated, they may never reunite.”
It has been reported from Ibn ʿUmar, Sahl ibn Saʿd, ʿAbd Allah ibn Masʿud, and ʿAli ibn Abi Talib.
- As for the hadith of Ibn ʿUmar, al-Bayhaqi cited it in suspended form (7/409), saying: “We narrated from Muhammad ibn Zayd, from Saʿid ibn Jubayr, from him, attributed to the Prophet, with this wording.” This is a chain whose narrators are trustworthy. Ibn Zayd is Ibn ʿAli al-Kindi; thus, if the chain leading to him is established,