“Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Kabir, and its narrators have been declared reliable, apart from al-Tabarani’s shaykh, ‘Abd Allah ibn Wuhayb al-Ghazzi (1), whom I do not know.”

What further confirms its weakness is that it does not occur in the other chains of the hadith. ‘Abd al-Razzaq said in al-Musannaf (1926)—and Ahmad narrated it from him (4/220): from Ma‘mar, from ‘Ubayd ibn ‘Umayr, from a shaykh whose name he had mentioned, from Nu‘aym al-Nahham, with something similar to it but without this addition. Its narrators are reliable and are among the narrators of the two Shaykhs, apart from the unnamed shaykh, who was either a Companion or a senior Successor; for ‘Ubayd ibn ‘Umayr, who narrated from him, was among the senior Successors and was born during the lifetime of the Prophet. He was perhaps the former, for ‘Abd al-Razzaq said immediately afterward (1927): from Ibn Jurayj, from Nafi‘, from ‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Umar, from Nu‘aym al-Nahham, with something similar to it, but without the addition.

Al-Hakim narrated it by way of ‘Abd al-Razzaq (3/259) and said: “Its chain of transmission is authentic.” Al-Dhahabi concurred with him, and it is as they said. Indeed, it meets the conditions of the two Shaykhs, provided Ibn Jurayj heard it from Nafi‘ and did not engage in concealment in transmission. But ‘Umar ibn Nafi‘ corroborated him from Nafi‘ with it. Ibn Qani‘ narrated it, as cited in al-Isabah. In al-Fath (2/98–99), he said: “’Abd al-Razzaq and others narrated it with an authentic chain of transmission.”

Isma‘il ibn ‘Ayyash differed with Sulayman ibn Bilal in its chain of transmission, saying: Yahya ibn Sa‘id related to me; he said: Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Hibban informed me, from Nu‘aym al-Nahham