“He would supplicate with the palms of his hands, and would gesture thus with the backs of his hands.” Abu Yaʿla recorded it (2/264–265). This ʿUmar is weak.
A benefit: Imam Malik, may Allah Most High have mercy on him, held that this hadith was to be acted upon and issued legal rulings accordingly, as stated in al-Mudawwanah by Ibn al-Qasim (2/158).
- “Whoever supports three daughters, providing for them, showing them mercy, and treating them gently, will be in Paradise.”
Abu Yaʿla recorded it (2/591): Abu Khaythamah narrated to us; Yazid ibn Harun informed us that Sufyan ibn Husayn narrated from Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir, from Jabir, who attributed it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him. It includes a story. Ahmad (3/303), al-Bazzar (2/384/1908), and al-Bukhari in al-Adab al-Mufrad (78) also recorded it through ʿAli ibn Zayd, from Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir, with the same wording.
I say: Abu Yaʿla’s chain of transmission appears to be authentic, for all its narrators are trustworthy and among Muslim’s narrators. However, I fear that ʿAli ibn Zayd—namely, Ibn Judʿan, who appears in Ahmad’s chain—may have been omitted between Sufyan and Muhammad. For I have not seen anyone list Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir among Sufyan’s teachers. I consulted Tahdhib al-Kamal by al-Hafiz al-Mizzi, whose practice is to be exhaustive in every biographical entry in listing the names of a narrator’s teachers and those who narrated from him; yet he did not mention this in Sufyan’s entry, nor in Ibn al-Munkadir’s entry. And Allah knows best.
In any case, it has been corroborated. Al-Bazzar and Bahshal, in Tarikh Wasit (83), said: Muhammad ibn Kathir ibn Nafiʿ al-Thaqafi, the grandson of Yazid ibn Harun’s daughter, narrated to us; he said: Surur ibn al-Mughirah narrated to us: