Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Awsat (1/119/2) and said: “No one narrated it from Ibn Jurayj except Muhammad ibn Yazid; Ahmad ibn Abi Bazzah alone narrated it.” I say: Al-Dhahabi said: “He was an imam in Qur’an recitation and reliable in it, but weak in hadith.” Al-Haythami did not know him, stating (3/221): “Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Awsat, and it includes Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Qasim ibn Abi Bazzah, whom I do not know.” I say: He is given an entry in al-Mizan and al-Lisan (1/283–284).
- As for the hadith of Bishr ibn Qudamah al-Dibabi, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Hakam narrates it: Sa‘id ibn Bashir al-Qurashi informed us: Abd Allah ibn Hakim al-Kattani—a Yemeni man, one of their freedmen—narrated to me from him that he said: “My own eyes saw my beloved, the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, standing at Arafat among the people, upon a red, dock-tailed she-camel. Beneath him was a Bulaniyyah velvet cloth, and he was saying”—then he mentioned the wording cited above—“while the people were saying, ‘This is the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him.’”
Sa‘id ibn Bashir said: I asked Abd Allah ibn Hakim, saying, “O Abu Hakim, what is a dock-tailed camel?” He replied, “I think it is one whose ears have been cut short, for the ears of she-camels are cut short so that they may hear.”
Al-Bayhaqi recorded it in his Sunan (4/332–333), as did al-Dhahabi in al-Mizan, in al-Qurashi’s biographical entry. He said: “Ibn Abd al-Hakam alone narrated it.” I say: He was a trustworthy Egyptian jurist and hadith master. But regarding his teacher, al-Qurashi, Ibn Abi Hatim related from his father (2/1/8):