attribute Sa‘id to his father, Yasar. This occurs frequently in chains of transmission. He could only be considered mistaken if he had said, “Sa‘id ibn Abi Sa‘id al-Maqburi,” for that would be a clear discrepancy. But this conclusion could only be reached if Yahya ibn Sa‘id had no narration from Sa‘id al-Maqburi. In fact, his narration from him is found in Muslim, just as his narration from Sa‘id ibn Yasar is found in the two Sahih collections. Thus, there is nothing to prevent Yahya ibn Sa‘id—who was the trustworthy, precise Ansari narrator—from having narrated this hadith from both Sa‘ids, from Abu Hurayrah! Nothing prevents this. That is assuming that ‘Ubayd al-Qaysi was trustworthy; however, I have not identified him. Though I suspect that he is Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman, from whom Qutaybah narrated, since he belonged to this same generation. Ibn Hibban deemed him trustworthy (8/430). And Allah knows best.

2622 — “You have acted in accordance with the sunnah.” This was said by ‘Umar to ‘Uqbah, who had wiped over his leather socks from one Friday to the next while travelling.

Al-Tahawi narrated it in Sharh al-Ma‘ani (1/48), al-Daraqutni in al-Sunan (p. 72), and al-Hakim (1/180–181), from whom al-Bayhaqi narrated it in al-Sunan (1/280), through Bishr ibn Bakr: Musa ibn ‘Ali ibn Rabah narrated to us from his father, from ‘Uqbah ibn ‘Amir al-Juhani, who said: “I travelled from Syria to Madinah on a Friday and entered upon ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab. He asked, ‘When did you put your leather socks on your feet?’ I replied, ‘On Friday.’ He asked, ‘Did you take them off?’ I replied, ‘No.’ Whereupon he said the above.” Al-Daraqutni said: “Its chain of transmission is authentic.” Al-Hakim said: “An authentic hadith according to Muslim’s criteria.” Al-Dhahabi agreed with him. I say: It is as they said.