“The hadith is authentic. Abu Maysarah was al-Hamdani; his name was ʿAmr ibn Shurahbil.”

I say: He was a trustworthy, devout worshipper, a mukhadram—one who lived in both the pre-Islamic era and Islam—and one of the narrators relied upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim. The rest of its narrators, likewise, are trustworthy and among the narrators relied upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim. Abu Ishaq was ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Sabiʿi. Although he was accused of concealment in transmission and later confusion, Sufyan—meaning al-Thawri—heard from him before that confusion occurred. Perhaps, like Shuʿbah, he narrated from him only what he explicitly stated having heard directly. They said: “Al-Thawri was the most reliable of people in reporting from him.”

The hadith also has another chain and a corroborating report from Abu Hurayrah. As for the other chain, Abu Nuʿaym recorded it in al-Hilyah (5/23): Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Ibrahim narrated to us; Musa ibn Ishaq al-Ansari, the judge, narrated to us; ʿIsa ibn ʿUthman narrated to us; my uncle Yahya ibn ʿIsa narrated to us; al-Aʿmash narrated from Talhah, from Masruq, from ʿAʾishah, who said: “A roasted sheep was given to us as a gift, and I distributed it, except for its shoulder. When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came, I mentioned it to him.” He said: “Everything remained for you except its shoulder.”

He said: “It is singular among al-Aʿmash’s reports from Talhah; Yahya ibn ʿIsa alone narrated it.”

I say: He was al-Nahshali al-Fakhuri, truthful but prone to mistakes; Muslim relied upon him. ʿIsa ibn ʿUthman was al-Nahshali al-Kisaʾi, a truthful narrator and one of al-Tirmidhi’s teachers. As for Musa ibn Ishaq al-Ansari, the judge, Ibn Abi Hatim said (4/1/135): “I heard from him, and he was trustworthy and truthful.”

I say: Thus, the chain is good, were it not that I have not presently found a biographical entry for Abu Nuʿaym’s teacher. As for the corroborating report, al-Bazzar said (p. 99, Mukhtasar al-Zawaʾid): ʿAli ibn