I say: This is a very weak chain of transmission. Hamzah ibn Abi Hamzah al-Jazari al-Nusaybi is abandoned and accused of fabrication, as stated in al-Taqrib. For this reason, al-Haythami said in Majmaʿ al-Zawaʾid (8/59): “Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Awsat, and its chain contains Hamzah ibn Abi Hamzah, who is abandoned.” Regarding the hadith under discussion, however, he said: “Al-Tabarani narrated it in al-Awsat, and its chain is good.” Al-Mundhiri (4/61) said likewise. And it is as they both said, were it not for the unknown status of Ibn ʿIrq al-Himsi. Perhaps they had come across a declaration of his trustworthiness, or a corroborating narrator for him. This is indicated by al-Tabarani’s preceding statement: “No one narrated it ... except ʿAmr.” And Allah knows best.

Al-Tabarani narrated another hadith from him in al-Muʿjam al-Saghir (180, al-Rawd al-Nadir). He has seventeen hadiths in al-Muʿjam al-Awsat (2522–2539), and nearly the same number in al-Duʿaʾ (see its first volume, p. 167). Al-Mizzi mentioned him among those who narrated from ʿAmr ibn ʿUthman al-Himsi and Muhammad ibn Musaffa.

The hadith is supported by a report from Ibn ʿAbbas, attributed to the Prophet, with the wording: “Indeed, everything has an eminence, and the eminence of gatherings is that which faces the qiblah.” It has been cited in the other book (1486).

2646 — “How many a neighbor will cling to his neighbor, saying: ‘My Lord, ask this man why he shut his door against me and withheld his favor from me.’”

Ibn Abi al-Dunya recorded it in Makarim al-Akhlaq (p. 85, no. 345).