“These, then, are falsehoods and marvels.” Ibn ʿAdī likewise cited them in al-Kāmil (fol. 323/2), including this hadith, though he did not mention Hudhayfah in its chain of transmission. After citing them, he said: “No one narrates these except al-Faḍl ibn al-Mukhtār; they are known through him, and most of them have no corroborating report.”

Similar to this is what al-Maqdisī recorded (3/85/1–2) through ʿAbd Allah ibn Ziyād, from Zurʿah, from Nāfiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: Tuba was mentioned in the presence of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and he said: “Abu Bakr, have you heard what Tuba is?” He replied, “Allah and His Messenger know best.” He said: “Tuba is a tree in Paradise whose height none knows but Allah, the Most High. A rider may travel beneath one of its branches for seventy years. Its leaves are fine garments, and birds settle upon it like Bactrian camels.” Abu Bakr said, “There must be splendid birds there!” He said: “Those who eat them will be more blissful than they are, and you will be among them, if Allah wills.”

Ibn Kathīr passed over it without comment in his Tafsīr (8/184—al-Manār), perhaps because its flaw is evident: ʿAbd Allah ibn Ziyād—the Palestinian—was criticized by Ibn Ḥibbān, who cited another hadith of his and said: “This is not among the hadiths of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.” Al-Ḥāfiẓ also cited a third hadith of his in al-Lisān, through Abū Nuʿaym with his chain from him, and said: “Abū Nuʿaym said: ‘The responsibility for it rests with ʿAbd Allah ibn Ziyād.’”

The statement that the birds are like Bactrian camels is supported by two mursal reports from Yaḥyā al-Jazzār and al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, which Ibn Abī Shaybah recorded (13/102–103) through two sound chains from them.