As for ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd Allāh al-Hāshimī, he was a contemporary of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib al-Hāshimī, who was trustworthy and whose narrations are found in both al-Bukhārī and Muslim. Yet they did not mention any narration by him from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUkaym, nor did they mention Ibrāhīm—namely, al-Nakhaʿī—among those who narrated from him.

Haytham ibn Khālid al-Miṣṣī was included by al-Dhahabī in al-Ḍuʿafāʾ, where he said: “Al-Dāraquṭnī said: ‘Weak.’” Al-Ḥāfiẓ endorsed this in al-Tahdhīb and definitively judged him weak in al-Taqrīb.

However, Shabīb ibn Saʿīd narrated it from Shuʿbah, from al-Ḥakam, from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Laylā, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUkaym, who said: A letter from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, came to us while we were in the land of Juhaynah: “I had previously granted you a concession concerning the hide and sinews of carrion; so do not make use of any sinew or hide.”

Ibn ʿAdī recorded it in the biographical entry on this Shabīb in al-Kāmil (4 / 1347), as did al-Ṭabarānī, as cited in al-Talkhīṣ al-Ḥabīr (1 / 47), which states: “Its chain of transmission consists of trustworthy narrators, and Faḍālah ibn al-Mufaḍḍal corroborated him in al-Ṭabarānī’s al-Awsaṭ.”

I say: Faḍālah’s wording differs from this, for his version reads: “I had previously granted you a concession concerning the skins of carrion; so do not make use of carrion, whether of its skin or its sinew.” Thus, it mentions “skin” in both places instead of “hide.” The preserved wording is ihāb (hide), meaning skin before it has been tanned. This is how a group narrated it from Shuʿbah, and it is cited in al-Irwāʾ (no. 38).